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Identify the metal used in Ullmann reaction.

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Important Questions on Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

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How will you convert the following: Chlorobenzene to biphenyl.
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How the following conversions can be carried out?

Benzene to diphenyl

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Why are aryl halides less reactive towards nucleophilic substitution reactions than alkyl halides? How can we enhance the reactivity of aryl halides?
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How the following conversions can be carried out?

Benzene to 4-bromonitrobenzene

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Draw other resonance structures related to the following structure and find out whether the functional group present in the molecule is ortho, para directing or meta directing.

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How will you bring about the following conversion?

Benzene to biphenyl

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The major product/(s) of monobromination of this compound is :

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Aryl halides are less reactive towards nucleophilic substitution reaction as compared to alkyl halide due to 
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Haloarenes are less reactive than haloalkanes and haloalkenes. Explain.
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Aryl chlorides and bromides can be easily prepared by electrophilic substitution of arenes with chlorine and bromine respectively in the presence of Lewis acid catalysts. But why does preparation of aryl iodides requires presence of an oxidising agent?
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Supply the reagents in the following sequence of reactions:

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How the following conversion can be carried out?

Chlorobenzene to p-nitrophenol

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What happens when chlorobenzene is subjected to hydrolysis?
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Diphenyls are a potential threat to the environment. How are these produced from aryl halides?
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Discuss the role of Lewis acids in the preparation of aryl bromides and chlorides in the dark.
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Which one is a nucleophilic substitution reaction among the following ?
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What happens when bromobenzene is treated with Mg in the presence of dry ether?
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Arrange the following compounds in the order of decreasing reactivity towards electrophilic substitution.

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