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Why is thionyl chloride considered as the best reagent to convert alcohol into alkyl chlorides?

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  1. Give one use of Freon-12.

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  2. Where is iodoform used?

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  3. Why is thionyl chloride considered as the best reagent to convert alco...

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  4. Discuss the ability of alkyl halides to dissolve in water.

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  5. Discuss the ability of alkyl halides to dissolve in organic solvent.

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  6. Neopentyl bromide undergoes nucleophilic substitution reactions very s...

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  7. What happens when CHCl3 reacts with oxygen in presence of sunlight?

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  8. Tert-butyl chloride reacts with aqueous NaOH by S(N^1) while n-butyl c...

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  9. Vinyl chloride is unreactive in nucleophilic substitution reaction. Ex...

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  10. Differentiate between retention and inversion.

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  11. Which compound in each of the pairs have higher boiling point. Give re...

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  12. Which compound in each of the pairs have higher boiling point. Give re...

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  13. Which compound in each of the pairs have higher boiling point. Give re...

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  14. Explain the following terms Plane polarized light

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  15. Explain the following terms optical activity

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  16. Explain the following terms asymmetric molecule

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  17. What do you understand by Chirality

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  18. What do you understand by Racemic modification

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  19. What do you understand by Meso compound

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  20. Give IUPAC name of the following:

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