Carbonation of a Grignard reagent or the SN2 displacement of an organic halide with cyanide ion followed hydrolysis are both good methods for the conversion of organic halides to carboxylic acids of one more carbon atom.For the following reaction,which of these two procedures would be the process of choice and why? 
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