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Haloalkanes react with AgCN to form isocynide as cheif product .explain .

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Haloalkanes react with AgCN to form isocynide as AgCN is mainly covalent and not ionic in nature due to which Ag-C bond do not ionize to from different product.Thus,nitrogen is free to donate electron pair which result in formation isocyanide ( R-NC).

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