Trihaloalkane
Trihaloalkanes are compounds obtained by replacing three hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon by three halogen atoms.
Example
Chloroform is an important trihaloalkane. Dumas named CHCl3 as chloroform as it gives formic acid on hydrolysis.
Chloroform is prepared in the laboratory by the reaction between ethyl alcohol with bleaching powderfollowed by the distillation of the product chloroform. Bleaching powder act as a source of chlorine and calcium hydroxide. This reaction is called haloform reaction. The reaction proceeds in three steps as shown below.
CH3CH2OH + Cl2 → CH3CHO + 2HCl
Ethyl alcohol Acetaldehyde
CH3CHO + 3Cl2 → CCl3CHO + 3HCl
Acetaldehyde Trichloro acetaldehyde
2CCl3CHO + Ca(OH)2 → 2CHCl3 + (HCOO)2 Ca
Chloral   chloroform
i. Chloroform is a colourless liquid with peculiar sickly smell and a burning taste
ii. The vapours of chloroform when inhaled cause unconsciousness (depress the central nervous system) and hence it is used as an anaesthetic.
Chloroform undergoes oxidation in the presence of light and air to form phosgene (carbonyl chloride)
Since phosgene is very poisonous, its presence makes chloroform unfit for use as anaesthetic.
Chloroform undergoes reduction with zinc and HCl in the presence of ethyl alcohol to form methylene chloride.
Chloroform reacts with nitric acid to form chloropicrin.(Trichloro nitro methane)
It used as an insecticide and soil sterilising agent.
Chloroform reacts with aliphatic or aromatic primary amine and alcoholic caustic potash, to give foul smelling alkyl isocyanide (carbylamines)
This reaction is used to test primary amine.
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