The potassium hydroxide is an unsuitable medium because an aqueous solution medium is highly polar in nature, so there will be a high tendency for carbonation to be formed and prefer substitution reaction rather than an elimination reaction.
The potassium hydroxide is an unsuitable medium for effecting the base-promoted elimination due to the fact that alkoxide anions aren't only more basic than the pure hydroxyl group, but they may be also bulkier. The higher bulkiness makes it a worse nucleophile than hydroxyl and the higher basicity makes it better at E2 eliminations.
A substitution reaction is a form of Chemical reaction in which the functional group of 1 chemical compound is substituted by means of any other group or it's miles a reaction that involves the substitute of one atom or a molecule of a compound with another atom or molecule.
Carbonation is the chemical reaction of carbon dioxide to provide carbonates, bicarbonates, and carbonic acid. In chemistry, the term is sometimes used in place of carboxylation, which refers to the formation of carboxylic acids.
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