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Show how will you synthesise:

cyclohexylmethanol using an alkyl halide by an SN2 reaction.


In the above conversion, NaOH gets dissociated into Na+ and OH-and Na+ then combines with Cl of chloromethylcyclohexane forming NaCl and thus the final product Cyclohexylmethanol is obtained.


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