Carboxylic Acids Question 96
Question: How will you convert butan-2-one to propanoic acid
[IIT-JEE (Screening) 2005]
Options:
A) Tollen’s reagent
B) Fehling’s solution
C) $ NaOH/I_2/{H^{+}} $
D) $ NaOH/NaI/{H^{+}} $
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Answer:
Correct Answer: C
Solution:
$ \underset{\underset{O}{\mathop{|\ |}}}{\mathop{C_2H_5-C-CH_3}}+I_2+NaOH\to C_2H_5CO_2^{-}N{a^{+}}+CHI_3 $
$ C_2H_5CO_2^{-}N{a^{+}}\xrightarrow{{H^{+}}}C_2H_5COOH+N{a^{+}} $
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