Alkyl halide reacts with Lithium aluminium hydride to give alkane. Name the attacking reagent which will bring out this change.

Question

Philoid · Accepted Answer

Alkyl halide reacts with Lithium aluminium hydride to give alkane.

Mechanism:

In step 2, we can see that hydride ion (H^-) attacks the alkyl group and is responsible for the replacement of Cl atom.

Hence, hydride ion is the attacking reagent which will bring out this change.