The following reaction is known by the name
.

Options

A. Acetylation
B. Schotten-Baumann reaction
C. Friedel-Craft s reaction
D. Perkin s reaction

Answer

B

Explanation

Benzonyl chloride is only very slowly decomposed by water or by dilute sodium hydroxide Because of this compounds containing as active hydrogen atom (e.g aniline or phenol) can be benzoylated in the presence of dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide This method of benzoylation is know as the Schotten-Baumann reaction
`C_(6)H_(5)NH_(2)+C_(6)H_(5)COCIoverset(NaOH)rarrC_(6)H_(5)NHCOC_(6)H_(5)+NaCl+H_(2)O`