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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

What happen when ethyl alcohol reacts with chlorine

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7 Years agoGrade 12
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The chorine oxidizes the alcohol to acetaldehyde and then each of the alpha hydrogens are also replaced with chlorine atoms. This gives you chloral (trichloroacetaldehyde).