From section 'Nitrogen Containing Compounds'
I spent quite a lot of time here but could not figure out the answer. It's not mentioned in my school text book either. The solution given in my book is:
I'd like to know:
Is the answer provided (c) correct?
How do I know that heating that compound in the presence of a base results in the formation of that product? We've got plenty of cases in our textbook (Tollen's Test, Fehling's Test and the aldol reaction, to name a few) where we heat organic compounds in the presence of a base, but none of them go by what happened in this question.