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How can you prepare ethyl bromide from silver propanoate

How can you prepare ethyl bromide from silver propanoate
 

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Kriti
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one year ago
On treating silver propanoate with bromine gas it gives ethyl Bromide and Silver Bromide and releases carbon dioxide gas it is a kind of decarboxylation reaction in which the number of carbon decreases in the product by one as compared to the reactant
CH3CH2COOAg + Br2 --> CH3CH2Br + AgBr + CO2 gas 

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