MHT CET Chemistry question

t-Butyl chloride reacts with by mechanism with rate [t-butyl chloride]. One of the reasons for the reaction to be of first order is that

Answer: (B)

Solution

The rate-determining step is slow ionisation of t-butyl chloride to the stable tertiary carbocation, so the rate depends only on the halide

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