Anjali Ahuja
Last Activity: 11 Years ago
Hi student
The conversion of acetic acid (CH3COOH) to ethane (CH3CH3) will be done as:
CH3COOH (in presence of PCl5) ------> CH3COCl (hydrolysis) ------
----->CH3CHO (hydrolysis) ------->C2H5OH (PCl5) --------> CH3CH2Cl(hydrolysis)--
-------->C2H6