During lab preparation of Chloroform, an aqueous paste of bleaching powder acts as
Haloforms are trihalogen derivatives of
In a laboratory preparation of chloroform from ethanol and bleaching powder, the bleaching powder performs multiple roles. It acts first as an oxidising agent, then as a chlorinating agent, and finally as a hydrolysing agent. What is the intermediate compound formed after the chlorination step?
Chloroform can be obtained from chloral by the action of
