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Q. Chlorine reacts with ethanol to give:

JIPMERJIPMER 1999

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Chlorine oxidise ethanol and form chloral. $ {{C}_{2}}{{H}_{5}}OH\xrightarrow[-2HCl]{C{{l}_{2}}}C{{H}_{3}}CHO\xrightarrow[-3HCl]{3C{{l}_{2}}}\underset{\text{Chloral}}{\mathop{CC{{l}_{3}}\cdot CHO}}\, $