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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

If chloroform is treated with alcoholic NaOH, potasium formate (HCOONa) is produced.Why is aqueous NaOH not used ?

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11 Years agoGrade 12
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11 Years ago
Chloroform treating with alcoholic NaOH andaqueous NaOH yields different products.As areagent, chloroform serves as a source of the dichlorocarbene CCl2group. It reacts with aqueoussodium hydroxideusually in the presence of aphase transfer catalystto produce dichlorocarbene, CCl2

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