Explain the following:
Chloroform is chlorine compound but it fails to react with silver nitrate solution.
Explain the following:
Methyl chloride is hydrolysed more readily than chlorobenzene.
This can be explain in the following ways:
When alkyl chloride react with aqueous KOH it forms alcohol. it is subsitution reaction.
C2H5Cl +KOH(aq.) ---> C2H5OH +KCl
When alkyl chloride react with alcoholic KOH it forms alkene. In this case elimination reaction take place.
C2H5Cl +KOH(alc.) ---> H2C=CH2 +KCl +H2O
What happens when (Give equations):
Chloroform is warmed with aniline in the presence of alc. KOH?