Acetamide is treated separately with the following reagents. Which one of these would give methyl amine?

P C l_{5}

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N a O H + B r_{2}

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H_{2} S O_{4}

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Solution

The correct option is B $N a O H + B r_{2}$
Hofmann bromamide rearrangement reaction $(R C O N H_{2} B r_{2} + N a O H - ------ \to R N H_{2}) .$

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