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CHHAYA PUBLICATION-HALOAKANES AND HALOARENES-Exercise - Short answer type questions
  1. How can allyl chloride and bromide be prepared from propane?

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  2. Why is the boiling point of hexafluoroethane considerably less than de...

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  3. Alkyl halides are insoluble in water, though they are polar-why?

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  4. KCN reacts with the ethanolic solution of RX to yield RCN while AgCN r...

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  5. Arrange in the order of increasing S(N)1 reactivity and explain:

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  6. Arrange in the order of increasing S(N)1 reactivity and explain the or...

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  7. Solvolysis of (A) in ethanol takes place readily while the solvolysis ...

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  8. Which one of each pair will not undergo S(N)2 reaction and why? (i) ...

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  9. Which one of each pair will not undergo S(N)2 reaction and why? (ii)...

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  10. After standing in aqueous acid, (R)-2-butanol is found to have lost it...

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  11. Which one of each pair of compounds will undergo S(N)1 reaction readil...

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  12. Which one of each pair of compounds will undergo S(N)1 reaction readil...

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  13. In which reaction does recemisation occurs and why?

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  14. Prove that in S(N)2 reaction inversion of configuration takes place.

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  15. Arrange in increasing priority: -CH(2)CH(3), -CD(2)CH(3), -CH(3),-NH(2...

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  16. How can an asymmetric carbon be designated as R or S?

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  17. What is the necessary and sufficient condition for a molecule to show ...

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  18. What do you mean by enantiomers and diastereoisomers?

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  19. What do you mean by meso-compound and racemic modication? Explain why ...

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  20. What is Saytzef rule? Explain with an example.

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