Question

Hydrolysis of acetonitrile in acid medium gives:

• A. $C{{H}_{3}}COOH$
• B. $C{{H}_{3}}NC$
• C. $C{{H}_{3}}COO{{C}_{2}}{{H}_{5}}$
• D. $C{{H}_{3}}C{{H}_{2}}OH$

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

$C{{H}_{3}}COOH$

Answer 2

Acetonitrile is the another name of methyl cyanide $(C{{H}_{3}}CN).$ Cyanide group on acidic hydrolysis changes to acid group as: $C{{H}_{3}}CN+{{H}_{2}}O\xrightarrow{[{{H}^{+}}]}C{{H}_{3}}COOH+{{N}_{2}}$