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How would you carry out following conversions?
Acetonitrile to acetamide

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To form acetamide, we must need carboxylic acid because acetamide is a derivative of carboxylic acid. Hence, acetonitrile must be hydrolysed to form ethanoic acid which on reaction with ammonia nucleophile to form product.
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