Explain why alkyl halides are generally not prepared in laboratory by free radical halogenation of alkanes.

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Free radical halogenation of alkanes is not suitable method for laboratory synthesis of alkyl halides because it results in the formation many isomeric monosubstituted products through substitution of different kinds of H atoms. Moreover, polyhalogenation may also take place.

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