Question

By treating toluene with chromyl chloride in $CC{l}_4$ and decomposing the complex with water, the reaction is named as:

• A. Etard reaction
• B. Sandmeyer's reaction
• C. Schotten Baumann reaction
• D. Stephen's reaction

Answer 1

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).