The bad smelling substance formed by the reaction of chloroform with methyl amine and alcoholic KOH will be:

methyl amine

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methyl alcohol

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methyl cyanide

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methyl isocyanide

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Solution

The correct option is B methyl isocyanide
$C H_{3} N H_{2} M e t h y l a m i n e + C H C l_{3} C h l o r o f o r m + 3 K O H \to C H_{3} N C e t h y l i s o c y a n l d e + 3 K C l + 3 H_{2} O$

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