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How do you prepare Ethyl cyanide and Ethyl isocyanide from a common alkylhalide ?

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Ethyl chloride reacts with ethanolic potassium cyanide to form ethyl cyanide as the major product. However, when ethyl chloride reacts with ethanolic silver cyanide ethyl isocyanide will be the major product.
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