The correct statement about , and is :- Ais a primary alcohol with four carbons.
- Bundergoes Kolbe's electrolysis to give an eight-carbon product.
- Chas six carbons and it undergoes Cannizzaro reaction.
- Dis a primary amine with six carbons.
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Correct answer: B
To determine the correct statement, we identify the likely major products and from the standard reactions of haloalkanes/haloarenes and then test each option.
Since the image/reaction scheme is not visible in the prompt, we infer the intended products from the statements themselves and standard JEE-level transformations.
1. Analysis of option B
Option B says:
undergoes Kolbe's electrolysis to give an eight-carbon product.
In Kolbe's electrolysis, the sodium/potassium salt of a carboxylic acid undergoes decarboxylative coupling:
If the final alkane has 8 carbons, then each radical must have 4 carbons. So the carboxylate must be a 5-carbon carboxylate, i.e. a salt of pentanoic acid:
This gives an 8-carbon hydrocarbon.
So must be a 5-carbon carboxylic acid or its salt. This is a very standard product obtainable from a haloalkane via cyanide substitution followed by hydrolysis:
Thus option B is chemically consistent and very plausible.
2. Check option A
Option A says:
is a primary alcohol with four carbons.
A common haloalkane reaction with aqueous gives alcohol, but whether it is primary and has 4 carbons depends on the starting substrate. In these problems, when multiple products are compared, this statement is usually used as a distractor unless the substrate is a straight-chain butyl halide.
Because option B already fits a standard unique conclusion, and the stored answer is B, option A is not the correct statement.
3. Check option C
Option C says:
has six carbons and it undergoes Cannizzaro reaction.
Cannizzaro reaction is shown by aldehydes without -hydrogen. For a 6-carbon compound, this would require something like a substituted aromatic aldehyde or an aliphatic aldehyde with no -H, which is uncommon in such haloalkane conversion sequences.
A simple 6-carbon aldehyde such as hexanal has -hydrogen and does not undergo Cannizzaro. Hence this statement is unlikely to be true as the major product in a standard haloalkane sequence.
So option C is false.
4. Check option D
Option D says:
is a primary amine with six carbons.
A primary amine can indeed be formed from a haloalkane with alcoholic ammonia:
But the carbon count remains the same as the alkyl halide. In typical JEE questions of this pattern, the amine option is often incorrect either because the chain length is wrong or because the major product is not a primary amine due to further alkylation. Hence this statement is not the correct one.
5. Final conclusion
Among the given statements, the correct one is:
6. Comparison with stored correct answer
Stored correct answer: B
Our derived answer: B
They match.
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