Question

What is the action of a mixture of cold and dilute hydrochloric acid and sodium
nitrite on - (a) ethylamine (b) diethylamine (c) triethylamine?​

Answer 1

Answer:

first we react ethylamine with dilute hydrochloric acid to give ethyl ammonium chloride

then react ethyl ammonium chloride with sodium hydroxide then we got ethylamine again