MHT CET 2025 Chemistry question

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Find principle of green chemistry to show protection of selective group is not advantageous?

(A)Use of renewable feed stock
(B)Reduce number of derivativesCorrect
(C)Use of catalysis
(D)Design for degradation

Answer: (B)

Solution

Protecting one functional group during a synthesis needs extra reagents for protection and for deprotection, which creates additional steps, more waste and a lower atom economy. The green chemistry principle that discourages this is 'reduce derivatives' (avoid unnecessary

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