JEE Main Chemistry question
Benzene is nitrated/reduced in two steps to give a dinitro intermediate X (installed with the second nitro group *meta* to the first), which is then partially reduced (Sn/HCl, controlled) to Y, reducing only one of the two nitro groups. Y is
Answer: (C)
Solution
The first nitration directs the second nitro group to the *meta* position (since –NO₂ is *meta*-directing), giving *m*-dinitrobenzene (X);
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