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ChemistryOrganic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and TechniquesJEE Main

The number of monochlorination products (structurally distinct, ignoring stereoisomers) possible for naphthalene is

Answer: (B)

Solution

Naphthalene has two chemically distinct types of ring-carbon positions by symmetry: the four equivalent -positions (1,4,5,8) and the four equivalent -positions (2,3,6,7). Monosubstitution at any

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