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Give reasons for the following in one or two sentences.
'Acetic acid can be halogenated in the presence of `P` and `Cl_2`, but formic acid cannot be halogenated in the same way'.

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Acetic acid has `alpha-H` atoms which can be replaced by `(-Cl)` but formic acid does not have `alpha-H` atom `(H.V.Z. reaction)`.
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