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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Cyclohexylamine amine is the stronger base than Aniline? Why?


We can say that aniline is a weaker base than cyclohexylamine because the electron pair on nitrogen of aniline is strongly held by virtue of being delocalized into the π system of the aromatic ring. The unshared pair in cyclohexylamine is localized on nitrogen, less strongly held, and therefore “more available” in an acid–base reaction.

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Tetrahydroquinoline amine is the stronger base than Tetrahydroisoquinoline? Why?



We can say that Tetrahydroisoquinoline  is a weaker base than Tetrahydroquinoline because the electron pair on nitrogen of Tetrahydroisoquinoline is strongly held by virtue of being delocalized into the π system of the aromatic ring. The unshared pair in Tetrahydroquinoline is localized on nitrogen, less strongly held, and therefore “more available” in an acid–base reaction.

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Phenyl group is known to extract negative inductive effect, but each phenyl ring in biphenyl is more reactive than benzene towards Electrophilic substation. Why?



It is because, in biphenyl, one of the phenyl groups acts as donor and the other as electron acceptor. This increases electron density on benzene ring and facilitates Electrophilic attack at ortho and para position.

Are all the five bonds of PCl5 equivalent? Justify your answer.


PCl5 has Sp3 hybridisation and trigonal bipiramidal geometry. PCl5 has three equivalent equatorial and two equivalent axial P – Cl bonds. However, due to greater bond pair – bond pair repulsions, the axial P – Cl bonds are longer and hence different from the three equatorial bonds

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