Question

Reduction of aniline with acetyl chloride in presence of $NaOH$ produce

• A. aniline hydrochloride
• B. acetanilide
• C. p-chloroaniline
• D. a red dye

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

$\underset{\text{ Aniline }}{C_6{H}_5}N{H}_2+\underset{\text{Acetyl chloride}}{Cl-COC{H}_3}\stackrel{\text{N a O H}}{\to }\underset{\text{Acetanilide}}{C_6{H}_{5}NHCOC{H}_3}+HCl$