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Monochlorination of ethane to ethyl chloride is more practicable than the monochlorination of n-pentane. Assign reason.

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Ethane has only primary carbon atoms and gives one product on monochlorination. `n`-pentane has both primary and secondary carbon atoms and will give a mixture of products upon monochlorination.
`underset("Ethane")(CH_(3)CH_(3))overset(Cl_(2)(U.V.))tounderset("Chloroethene")(CH_(3)CH_(2)Cl)`
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