Question

Explain the action of sodium with alkyl halide​

Answer 1

Answer:

mark as brailanist

Explanation:

The action of sodium metal on a mixture of aryl halide and alkyl halide in ether gives arenes. ... A reaction in which aryl halide and alkyl halide react together in presence of sodium metal and dry ether to form alkyl benzene is known as the Wurtz-Fittig reaction. In this reaction, aryl halides undergo alkylation.

Answer 2

The action of sodium with alkyl halide​ is called Wurtz reaction.

Wurtz reaction

• Alkyl halides are chemicals made from alkanes which contain one or more halogens. Alkyl halides are also known as halogens. Alkyl halides are a subset of the halocarbon class.
• Halogen atoms are replaced with hydrogen atoms to create a halogenated compound. Alkyl halides can be represented as RX. The reaction of alkyl halides with sodium in the presence of dry ether is known as the Wurtz reaction. This reaction is used to produce higher alkanes.

        2RX + 2Na→ R-R + 2Na

• In this reaction, two symmetrical haloalkanes are used, so the resulting product contains double the number of carbon atoms.

• If ether is not present, then sodium metal will react with oxygen to form oxides. Furthermore, if the same haloalkanes are not used, the products formed will contain alkanes with different numbers of carbon atoms, which are difficult to distinguish. Separation is not possible even with fractional distillation because Alkanes have the same boiling point and there is very little difference in boiling point when a few carbon atoms are increased or decreased.

(#SPJ2)