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Q. An alkyl halide reacts with alcoholic ammonia in a sealed tube, the product formed will be

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Solution:

When an alkyl halide reacts with alcoholic ammonia in a sealed tube then a mixture of primary, secondary and tertiary amine is formed.

$RX + NH_3 \rightarrow \underset{\text{ pri-amine}}{RNH_2 } + HX$

$RNH_2 + XR \rightarrow \underset{\text{ sec- amine}}{R_2NH} + HX$

$R_2 NH + XR \rightarrow \underset{\text{ ter-amine}}{R_3N } + HX$