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MHT CET · Chemistry · Aldehydes and Ketones

Chromyl chloride converts methyl group to a chromium complex, which on acid hydrolysis gives corresponding aldehyde. This reaction is called

  1. A Stephen reaction
  2. B Wolff-Kishner reaction
  3. C Etard reaction
  4. D Rosenmund reaction
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(C) Etard reaction

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When toluene is treated with solution of chromyl chloride \(\left(\mathrm{CrO}_{2} \mathrm{Cl}_{2}\right)\) in \(\mathrm{CS}_{2}\), brown chrominum complex is obtained, which on acid hydrolysis gives benzaldehyde. This reaction is called Etard reaction.