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What is the term for the reaction that converts a nitrile to a carboxylic acid?
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What are products formed when ethanenitrile is refluxed with dilute sodium hydroxide?
(Select all that apply).
ammonia
sodium ethanoate
sodium ethoxide
ammonium hydroxide
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Which of the following statements is true about the alkaline hydrolysis of nitriles?
it requires treating with sodium borohydride
it produces the carboxylate salt
it directly produces the carboxylic acid
it produces the amine salt
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What are the products formed when ethanenitrile is refluxed with dilute hydrochloric acid?
(Select all that apply).
ammonium chloride
ethylamine
ammonia
ethanoic acid
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What is the main product formed when propanal reacts with hydrogen cyanide?
propanenitrile
2-hydroxybutanenitrile
2-hydroxpropanenitrile
butanenitrile
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Which of the following compounds can undergo a nucleophilic addition reaction with hydrogen cyanide?
aldehydes
carboxylic acids
amines
alkenes
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What is the main product formed when bromoethane reacts with potassium cyanide?
ethylamine
ethanenitrile
propylamine
propanenitrile
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What type of reaction occurs when a halogenoalkane reacts with potassium cyanide?
hydrolysis
substitution
elimination
addition
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