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Explain the reaction of aqueous $K O H$ on geminal dihalide..

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Nucleophilic aliphiphatic substitution
$R C H_{2} (C l)_{2} + K O H ⟶ R C H (O H) C l + K C l$
$R C H (O H) C l ⟷ (R - C H O) + H C l$

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