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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

How to convert:

1.Toulene to benzylalcohol

2.Ethanol to but-1-yne

3.Isopropyl alcohol to iodoform

4.tert-Butyl bromide to isobutyl bromide

Profile image of Apoorva  Mudgal
16 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Debarun Chatterjee
14 Years ago

1. Add Cl2 i presence of sunlight and then add aq. KOH.

2. Add SOCl2, then Na in presence of dry ether. add 2 equivalents of Cl2 in presence of sunlight and then treat with excess of alcoholic KOH.

3. Add NaOH in presence of I2.

4. Treat with alcoholic KOH followed by addition of HBr in presence of peroxide.

Profile image of Khushal
11 Years ago
  1. CH3CH2OH + SOCL2----------> CH3CH2CL-------( in presence of CH tripple bond CNa)---------> CH3CH2C( tripple bond)CH.