JEE Main Chemistry question

Among the given compounds, the most susceptible to nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl group is:

(A)MeCOCl
(B)MeCHOCorrect
(C)MeCOOMe
(D)MeCOOCOMe

Answer: (B)

Solution

An aldehyde's carbonyl carbon has no adjacent lone-pair-donating heteroatom to delocalize electron density into the carbonyl (unlike the ester/anhydride's

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