HALOALKANES AND HALOARENES

Reasoning type questions

1.Electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions in haloarenes occur slowly.

2.Although chlorine is an electron withdrawing group, yet it is ortho-, para-directing in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions.

3.C-X bond length in halobenzene is smaller than C-X bond length in CH3-X

4.Aryl halides are extremely less reactive towards Nucleophilic Substitution reactions.

5.Haloalkanes react with KCN to form alkyl cyanides as main product while AgCN forms isocyanides as main product.

6.Allyl chloride is more reactive than n - propyl chloride towards nucleophilic substitution reaction.

7.Allyl chloride is hydrolysed more readily than n-propyl chloride.

8.Tert-Butylbromide reacts with aq. NaOH by SN1 mechanism while n-butylbromide reacts by SN2 mechanism

9.p - nitro chlorobenzene undergoes nucleophilic substitution faster than chlorobenzene

10.Grignard reagents should be prepared under anhydrous conditions.

11.The treatment of alkyl chlorides with aq.KOH leads to the formation of alcohols but in the presencw of alc.KOH alkenes are major products.

12.Alkyl halides, though polar, are immiscible with water.

13.Haloalkanes easily dissolve in organic solvents.

14.n-butyl bromide has higher point than tert.-butyl bromide.

15.1-Bromobutane optically inactive but 2-Bromobutane is optically active.

16.Preparation of alkyl chloride from alcohols by treating it with Thionyl chloride SOCl2, is the best method.

17.Sulphuric acid is not used during the reaction of alcohols with KI.
18.Chloroform is stored in closed dark coloured bottles.