When alkyl halide is heated with an aqueous solution of silver nitrite,it gives:

Nitroalkane only

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Alkyl nitrite only

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Alkyl amine

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None of these

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Solution

The correct option is B Nitroalkane only
On treating ethanolic solution of nitroalkane with silver nitrite $A g - O - N = O$ nitroalkane is formed because since the bond between $A g - O$ is covalent, the lone pair on nitrogen acts as an attacking site for nucleophilic substitution.

$R - X + A g N O_{2} \to R - N O_{2} + A g X$

Hence the correct option is A.

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