JEE Main Chemistry question
The hydrogen atom in chloroform is:
Answer: (A)
Solution
In chloroform, , the single hydrogen is attached to a carbon bonded to three strongly electron-withdrawing chlorine atoms; this inductive withdrawal stabilises the carbanion formed on loss of that proton (), making the C–H bond unusually acidic
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