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Acetyl chloride is treated with excess ammonia. The organic product is

Aammonium acetate
Bacetamide, $CH X_{3} - CO - NH X_{2}$
Cacetonitrile, $CH X_{3} - CN$
Dmethanamine, $CH X_{3} - NH X_{2}$

Answer: B

Ammonia attacks the carbonyl carbon, a tetrahedral intermediate forms and

Cl X^{-}

is expelled. The second mole of ammonia takes up the HCl as

NH X_{4} Cl

. The organic product is acetamide.

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