haloalkane to nitrile

i know you react the haloalkane with KCN however I'm looking at the notes I made a while ago and it says alcoholic conditions. Am I right in thinking the alcoholic conditionsbit is wrong? I know that if we had a haloalkane and were reacting it with KOH we would have to say whether it is alcoholic conditions or aqueous conditions since we get a nucelophilic sub happening with one but an elimination happening with the other but that is not the case her so basically I'm asking whether I can just cross of hte alkcoholic condtiions bit for the KCN

wILL GIVE REP. tHanks :biggrin:

Reply 1

EierVonSatan

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Alcoholic

it's there for better solubility of the inorganic salt :smile:

Reply 2

joostan

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Original post by CasualSoul

i know you react the haloalkane with KCN however I'm looking at the notes I made a while ago and it says alcoholic conditions. Am I right in thinking the alcoholic conditionsbit is wrong? I know that if we had a haloalkane and were reacting it with KOH we would have to say whether it is alcoholic conditions or aqueous conditions since we get a nucelophilic sub happening with one but an elimination happening with the other but that is not the case her so basically I'm asking whether I can just cross of hte alkcoholic condtiions bit for the KCN

wILL GIVE REP. tHanks :biggrin:

Does this help? http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/haloalkanes/cyanide.html

Reply 3

CasualSoul

OP

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Original post by joostan

Does this help? http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/haloalkanes/cyanide.html