How will you convert acetic acid to trichoroacetic acid
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Acetic acid reacts with chlorine in presence of red pbosphorus to give successively mono, di, tri chloro acetic acid.
CH3COOH + Cl2 = CH2ClCOOH + HCl
CH2ClCOOH + Cl2 = CHCl2COOH + HCl
CHCl2COOH + Cl2 = CCl3COOH + HCl
This reaction is also called Hell-Volhard-Zelinky Reaction
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