Aromatic Compounds and Aryl Halides questions
308 published questions with worked solutions.
- The correct decreasing order of reactivity towards electrophilic aromatic substitution (Sᴇ) for (i) C₆H₆, (ii) C₆H₅CH₃, (iii)...
- Benzoic acid, on heating with soda lime, gives
- Which fraction of coal-tar is richest in simple arenes (benzene, toluene, xylene)?
- Which xylene isomer is most easily sulfonated?
- The strong ring-activating effect of –NH₂ in aniline can be reduced (moderated) by treating aniline with
- Which of the following burns with a notably sooty (smoky) flame, characteristic of a high-carbon-content aromatic compound?
- The C–C bond length in benzene (1.39 Å), compared with the C=C bond length in a typical alkene (≈1.34 Å), is
- In the halogenation of an aromatic nucleus, the halogen carrier (e.g. FeCl₃/AlCl₃) is used to generate the species
- [Roorkee 1994] Amongst the following, the compound that can be most readily sulfonated is
- [AIEEE 2007] The presence of a nitro group in a benzene ring
- A common/characteristic reaction of benzene and its derivatives is
- When RCOCl and AlCl₃ are used together in a Friedel–Crafts acylation, the electrophile is
- Which named transformation produces an alkyl aryl ketone, R–CO–Ar (R = alkyl)?
- Which of the following species could be expected to exhibit aromatic character? Select from: (I) cyclopentadienyl anion, (II)...
- When chlorine is passed through warm benzene in presence of sunlight, the product obtained is [Guj CET 2005]
- Which of the following compounds is not aromatic? [J & K CET 2004]
- Compounds P [2-hydroxy-5-methylbenzoic acid], Q [3-methoxy-4-methyltoluene type anisole], and S [an aryl ester, 4-methylphenyl...
- Which one of these is not true for benzene? [K CET 2010]
- A *meta* directing functional group is
- Benzene can be obtained by heating either benzoic acid with X or phenol with Y. X and Y are respectively [AMU 2006]
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