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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

how will you prepare a acetaldehyde and acetone by useing suitable geminal dihalide

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By the hydrolysis of Gem- dihalides
Aldehydes can be obtained by the alkaline hydrolysis of gem-dihalides in which the two halogen atoms are bon|ded to the terminal carbon atom.