Detection of Halogens in an Organic Compound - MeitY OLabs

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Detection of Halogens in an Organic Compound :-
There are many organic compounds containing halogens such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine etc and are called organohalogen compounds. Some commonly known examples are carbon tetrachloride, chlorofluoro carbons, DDT, iodomethane, bromobenzene etc. Upon fusion with sodium metal, the halogens in the organic compound is converted to ionic sodium halides, which can be extracted by boiling the fused mass with distilled water and is used for the detection of halides.

This video explains how to detect the presence of halogens in an organic compound.