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What is the action of the following reagents on ethyl amine? Nitrous acid - Chemistry

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What is the action of the following reagents on ethyl amine?

Nitrous acid

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Ethyl amine on reaction with nitrous acid forms ethyl diazonium salts as very unstable intermediate which decomposes immediately by reaction with solvent water to give ethanol.

\[\ce{\underset{Ethyl amine}{C2H5 - NH2} + HNO2 ->[273-278 K][(NaNO2 + HCl)] \underset{Ethyl diazonium chloride}{[C2H5 - \overset{⊕}{N2}Cl^⊖]} ->[H2O] \underset{Ethanol}{C2H5 - OH} + N2 ↑ + HCl}\]

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