Thionyl chloride (SOCl2) is preferred because the other two
products are gaseous and escape the reaction mixture making the
purification of the products easier 4 Reaction with ammonia
Carboxylic acids react with ammonia to give ammonium salt which
on further heating at high temperature give amides For example:
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