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Explain unusual stabillity of chorohybrate thugh a compound with two or more -OH groups present on one carbon atom is usually unstabel
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The unusual stability of chloral hydrate has been attributed to -I effect of chlorine and to the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds `(CI_(3) C=-CH_(3) C - CH (OH)_(2))` .
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