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Show how will you synthesise:

pentan-1-ol using a suitable alkyl halide?


In this conversion also, Na forms the compound with Cl i.e. NaCl and to compensate the negative charge formed by Cl, OH attacks at that position resulting in pentan-1-ol.


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