Question

Methyl alcohol when react with $HI$ forms methyl iodide as a product.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

Alkyl iodides are prepared by heating alcohols with concentrated hydroiodic acid. Alkyl iodides can also be obtained by heating alcohols with sodium or potassium iodides in $95$ % phosphoric acid.

$R-OH+HI\stackrel{\Delta }{\to }R-I+H_{2}O$