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How will you bring about the following conversion?
Ethyl alcohol from ethylamine
Answer
Answer
Official answer keyEquation: $\mathrm{C_{2}H_{5}NH_{2}} + \mathrm{HNO_{2}} \xrightarrow{\mathrm{NaNO_{2}}\text{ }\text{+}\text{ }\text{HCl}} \mathrm{C_{2}H_{5}OH} + \mathrm{N_{2}} + \mathrm{H_{2}O}$
Ethylamine reacts with nitrous acid to give ethyl alcohol.
From ISC 2026 Specimen Chemistry Paper 1, question 12(ii).