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2-Bromopropane is heated with alcoholic . The main product is:

  1. Apropan-2-ol
  2. Bpropene
  3. Cpropane
  4. Dpropyne

Answer: B

Alcoholic KOH is a strongly basic medium and favours dehydrohalogenation (loss of HBr), giving . Propan-2-ol is the substitution product obtained with aqueous KOH.
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