Questions tagged [electrophilic-substitution]
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Attack of 3-methylbutan-1-ol on benzene in acidic medium
That's how I proceeded with the question. However the answer is tert-butylbenzene. I can't figure out why do I have an extra carbon atom.
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- JEE Advanced 1994
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Which of the following compounds will form significant amounts of meta product during mono-nitration reaction? [closed]
Hi, I tried to answer this question based wholly on the concepts of inductive effects. But haven't gotten anywhere with it.
I would appreciate any help regarding these questions:
What condition ...
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Which is more activating among Phenol, Sodium Phenoxide & Anisole? Also arrange them in increasing order of their activating effect
This is in reference to Kolbe's Reaction, actually I think that Sodium Phenoxide is the most activating because, in Kolbe's Reaction we don't make react $\ce{CO2}$ directly with phenol for the ...
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Effect of nitro group basicity order of o,m and p nitroanilines?
Would someone please help me with this? The order of basicity of o,m and p nitroanilines is m>o>p. My book states that ortho isomer has -I effect, -M effect as well as ortho effect, and meta isomer ...
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Electrophillic Iodination
I read that the Iodination of C6H6 (in presence of FeCl3) has a higher rate constant than C6D6 (in presence of FeCl3) in a book. It has mentioned without much explanation by simply stating that its ...
