The presence of halogen in an organic compound may be detected by warming the organic compound with aqueous silver nitrate. Which compound would be the quickest to produce a precipitate
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Iodoalkanes
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Iodoalkanes will be the quickest to form a precipitate due to its weak Van der Waals force causing the Iodine atom to be quickly replaced by Nitrate ion forming a Silver Halide (or in this case, Silver Iodide) precipitate. precipitates differ in color according to the Halogen the Halogenoalkane carries. Silver Fluoride is hard to test, Silver Chloride is white, Silver Bromide is pale yellow and Silver Iodide is yellowish-white
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