When acetamide is treated with `Br_(2)` and caustic soda, the paroduct formed is

Options

A. N-bromamide
B. Bromoacetic acid
C. methanamine
D. ethanamine

Answer

C

Explanation

Amides reacti with bromine and caustic soda to give their corresponding primary amines. Thus, acetamide gives methanamine. This reaction is know as Hofmann's bromadide, degradation reaction.
`H_(3)-underset("acetamide")overset(O)overset(||)C-NH_(2)+Br
_(2)+4KOH overset(343K) to +2BKr_(2)CO_(3)+underset("methanamine")(H_(3)C-NH_(2))+2H_(2)O`