How will you convert the following in not more than two steps:
(i) Benzoic acid to Benzaldehyde
(ii) Acetophenone to Benzoic acid
(iii) Ethanoic acid to $2$ - Hydroxyethanoic acid

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Solution

(iii) $C H_{3} C O O H + C l_{2} \to C l C H_{2} C O O H N a O H - --- \to H O C H_{2} C O O H$
Ethanoic acid 2-Hydroxyethanoic acid

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