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Organic Chemistry – Some Basic Principles And Techniques

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The reaction
$CH subscript 3 CH subscript 2 straight I space plus space KOH left parenthesis aq right parenthesis space rightwards arrow space space CH subscript 3 CH subscript 2 OH space plus space KI$
is classified as

electrophilic substitution
nucelophilic substitution
elimination
addition

Solution

B.

nucelophilic substitution

Option (b) is correct. This reaction is a nucleophilic substitution reaction since the nucleophile I^- is replaced by the nucleophile OH^– ion.

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