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Question: Alkyl halide can be converted into alkene by....

Alkyl halide can be converted into alkene by.

A

Nucleophilic substitution reaction

B

Elimination reaction

C

Both nucleophilic substitution and elimination reaction

D

Rearrangement

Answer

Elimination reaction

Explanation

Solution

Alkyl halide is best converted to alkene by mean of elimination reaction in form of dehydrohalogenation.

R−CH2−CH2−X→dehydrohalogenationR−CH=CH2R - CH_{2} - CH_{2} - X\overset{\quad\text{dehydrohalogenation}\quad}{\rightarrow}R - CH = CH_{2}