10.30 The treatment of alkyl chlorides with aqueous KOH leads to the formation of alcohols but in the presence of alcoholic KOH, alkenes are major products. Explain.
10.30 The treatment of alkyl chlorides with aqueous KOH leads to the formation of alcohols but in the presence of alcoholic KOH, alkenes are major products. Explain.
An aqueous solution, KOH almost completely ionizes to give OH-ions. OH- ion is a strong nucleophile (see the imp. note below), which leads the alkyl chloride to undergo a nucleophilic substitution reaction to form alcohol.
On the other hand, an alcoholic solution of KOH contains alkoxide (RO-) ion, i
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