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Which alkane will be formed as major product on electrolysis aqueous solution of sodium propanoate?

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n-Butane is obtained by the electrolysis of aqueous propanoate.
`2CH_(3)CH_(2)COONa+2H_(2)Ounderset("electrolysis")overset("Kolbe.s")rarr`
`underset("At anode")ubrace(CH_(3)CH_(2)CH_(2)CH_(3)+2CO_(2))+underset("At cathode")ubrace(2NaOH+H_(2))`
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