Write short notes on Carbylamine reaction .

Explanation

Aliphatic (or) aromatic primary amines react with chloroform and alcoholic KOH to give isocyanides (carbylamines), which has an unpleasant smell. This reaction is known as carbylamines test. This test used to identify the primary amines.
`{:(C_2H_5- NH_2+CHCl_3+3KOH to C_2H_5-NC+3KCl +3H_2O),(" Ethylamine Chloroform Ethylisocyanide "):}`.