JEE Main Chemistry question

Chlorine reacts with ethanol to give

(A)Ethyl chloride
(B)Chloroform
(C)Acetaldehyde
(D)ChloralCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

Chlorine first oxidises ethanol to acetaldehyde, and in the absence of base (unlike the haloform/iodoform reaction) the methyl group of the aldehyde then

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