Heating chloroform with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution forms

Heating chloroform with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution forms
  1. sodium acetate
  2. sodium oxalate
  3. sodium formate
  4. chloral

Solution

On heating chloroform with concentrated aqueous or alcoholic $\mathrm{NaOH}$, we get sodium formate,

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2013

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