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✓✗In Lassaigne’s test for sulphur, the extract acidified with acetic acid gives a black precipitate with
- ferric chloride
- lead acetate
- silver nitrate
- sodium nitroprusside
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✓✗In Dumas’ method of estimation of nitrogen, 0.35 g of an organic compound gave 55 mL of nitrogen collected at 300 K and 715 mm pressure. The percentage of nitrogen in the compound would be (aqueous tension at 300 K = 15 mm)
- 14.45
- 15.45
- 16.45
- 17.45
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✓✗Which of the following neutral molecules acts as a nucleophile?
- AlCl3
- BF3
- NH3
- SO3
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✓✗Which statement is correct about the resonance hybrid of the nitromethane molecule, CH3NO2?
- Both N−O bonds are of equal length
- There is no formal charge on N
- The negative charge is on carbon
- One N−O bond is a pure double bond
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✓✗The IUPAC name of the compound CH≡C−CH=CH2 is
- but-3-en-1-yne
- but-1-en-3-yne
- but-3-yn-1-ene
- but-1-yn-3-ene
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✓✗Which of the following acids is the weakest?
- CH3COOH
- HCOOH
- ClCH2COOH
- CH3CH2COOH
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✓✗Which of the given compounds can exhibit tautomerism?


- I, II and III
- I and III
- II and III
- I and II
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✓✗Which one of the following orders is correct regarding the −I effect of the substituents?
- −NR2 > −OR < −F
- −NR2 > −OR > −F
- −NR2 < −OR > −F
- −NR2 < −OR < −F
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✓✗The IUPAC name of CH3CH2Cl is
- 1-chloromethane
- ethyl chloride (IUPAC)
- dichloroethane
- chloroethane
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✓✗Which of the following statements are correct?
A. Kjeldahl’s method is not applicable to compounds containing nitrogen in a ring.
B. In Dumas’ method, nitrogen is estimated as N2 gas.
C. In the Carius method, halogens are estimated as silver halides.
D. Oxygen is estimated directly by heating with CuO.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
A. Kjeldahl’s method is not applicable to compounds containing nitrogen in a ring.
B. In Dumas’ method, nitrogen is estimated as N2 gas.
C. In the Carius method, halogens are estimated as silver halides.
D. Oxygen is estimated directly by heating with CuO.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- A, B and C only
- A, B, C and D
- B and D only
- A and D only
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✓✗Which of the following groups shows +I effect?
- −NO2
- −COOH
- −CH3
- −Cl
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✓✗The enolic form of ethyl acetoacetate, CH3−C(OH)=CH−COOC2H5 (in equilibrium with CH3COCH2COOC2H5), has
- 9 sigma bonds and 1 pi-bond
- 9 sigma bonds and 2 pi-bonds
- 16 sigma bonds and 1 pi-bond
- 18 sigma bonds and 2 pi-bonds
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✓✗The C−C bond lengths in ethane, ethene, benzene and ethyne follow the order
- ethane > ethene > benzene > ethyne
- ethane > benzene > ethene > ethyne
- ethyne > ethene > benzene > ethane
- benzene > ethane > ethene > ethyne
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✓✗The resonance energy of a molecule is the difference in energy between
- the most stable contributing structure and the actual (resonance hybrid) molecule
- the molecule and its atoms
- the ground and excited states
- two isomers
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✓✗Phosphorus in an organic compound is estimated as
- P2O5 gas
- Na3P
- AgP
- Mg2P2O7 or ammonium phosphomolybdate