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AP EAMCET · Chemistry · General Organic Chemistry

Arrange the following in decreasing order of their pKb values

  1. A d>a>c>b
  2. B a>b>d>c
  3. C d>c>b>a
  4. D a>c>d>b
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(C) d>c>b>a

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The reaction of amines with mineral acids to form ammonium salts shows that these are basic in nature. Amines have an unshared pair of electrons on nitrogen atom due to which they behave as Lewis base Basic character of amines can be better understood in terms of their Kb and…