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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

A student was treating iodoform with silver nitrate and he got yellow precipitation. Then he used chloroform instead of Iodoform.
Will he get the earlier result?
Why?

Profile image of Harshit Singh
5 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Pawan Prajapati
5 Years ago
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No
C-I bond in iodoform is weaker than C-CI bond of chloroform. So C-I bond of iodoform is easily broken to form yellow precipitate of AgI when heated with AgNO3 solution.


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