@AbhigyanC well, Indians are everywhere ;) half of this site is Germans and Indians only (a bit of an overestimate :P)

@GaurangTandon 12th

@GaurangTandon Congratulations on your great rank in the JEE!!

@IceInkberry I'm from Bangalore...

@AbhigyanC thanks :)

How to do this question? I've done the following:

@AbhigyanC see beta decarboxylation of carboxylic acids

googleweblight.com/i?u=https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/…

Did any of you get a list of all the exceptions to canizaro reaction?

Could help this fellow chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/98885/5026

this is an interesting redox question, anyone knows the answer?

@GaurangTandon I have a note of all of them written in my book, but it'll take a lot of time to transcribe it into mathjax...

@AvnishKabaj I can't read this as i'm not a member... but thanks for the reaction name

@AbhigyanC can you share a photograph of that page where you've written all of it? I can transcribe it into an answer, I have enough time these days...

@AbhigyanC This is the property of $\beta-$keto acids, whenever they are heated, such a cyclic trasnsition state is formed and carbondioxide is lost. Now you should be able to sketch the mechanism of that question and then arrive at the right answer.

@Abcd thanks!! I got the mechanism now... I haven't been taught carboxylic acids yet, so I guess this will come up later...

@GaurangTandon here you go...

How could be it's answer pyrene it has no chlorine atom.

anyone have explaination

My book asks how fluoroethane can be prepared from an alcohol but the answer is not given. Would someone please tell me if my attempt is correct? I can only think of a solution using two steps: CH3CH2OH+HBr---> CH3CH2Br + H2O, CH3CH2Br + AgF ----> CH3CH2F + AgBr (Swarts reaction). Is this right? Is this the answer I'm supposed to be getting or is there some other reaction?

@Hema You could try finkelstein reaction as well.