Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A): α -halocarboxylic acid on reaction with dil. NH 3 gives good yield of α -amino

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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): $α$ -halocarboxylic acid on reaction with dil. ${NH}_{3}$ gives good yield of $α$ -amino carboxylic acid whereas the yield of amines is very low when prepared from alkyl halides.

Reason (R): Amino acids exist in zwitter ion form in aqueous medium.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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. α - halocarboxylic acid react with dill NH 3 at faster than amines and amino acids exist in zwitter ion form in aqueous medium. So, both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

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