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By treating toluene with chromyl chloride in CCl4 and decomposing the complex with water, the reaction is named as:

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Etard reaction
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Sandmeyer's reaction
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Schotten Baumann reaction
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Stephen's reaction
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Solution

The correct option is A Etard reaction
The Etard Reaction is named after a French chemist named Alexandre Léon Étard. The Etard Reaction is a chemical reaction in which a heterocyclic bound or an aromatic methyl group is directly oxidized to an aldehyde using chromyl chloride non-polar solvent like carbon disulfide and carbon tetrachloride.. Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

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