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What is the action of the following on ethyl bromide?
silver acetate
Write the chemical reaction for the following:
Ethyl bromide is heated with silver acetate.
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Solution
\[\ce{\underset{\text{Ethyl bromide}}{C2H5Br} + \underset{\text{Silver acetate}}{CH3COOAg}->\underset{\text{Ethyl acetate}}{CH3COOC2H5} + AgBr}\]
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