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why dry gaseous HCL is used in the prepartion of alkyl halides from alkenes?
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DrBob222
I am not an organic chemist but my best educated guess is that you don't want the alcohol to form; i.e., the water present in wet HCl would hydrate the double bond forming an alcohol.
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