Choose the Best Answer · Q4
Q.Assertion: Acetamide on reaction with KOH and bromine gives acetic acid.
Reason: Bromine catalyses hydrolysis of acetamide.
a) if both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
b) if both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
c) assertion is true but reason is false
d) both assertion and reason are false
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Step 1. The assertion claims acetamide + KOH + bromine gives acetic acid. This is factually wrong: Br2 in aqueous or ethanolic KOH on a primary amide is precisely the Hofmann bromamide degradation, whose product is a primary AMINE with one carbon fewer, not a carboxylic acid -- acetamide (CH3-CONH2) gives methylamine (CH3-NH2) + K2CO3 + KBr + H2O, never acetic acid. …
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