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COMEDK · Chemistry · 25. Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

Which of the following statements about benzyl chloride is incorrect?

  1. A It is a lachrymatory liquid and answers Beilstein's test.
  2. B It gives a white precipitate with alcoholic silver nitrate.
  3. C It is less reactive than alkyl halides.
  4. D It can be oxidised to benzaldehyde by boiling with copper nitrate solution.
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(C) It is less reactive than alkyl halides.

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Benzyl chloride is more reactive than alkyl halides as benzyl carbocation is stabilised by resonance. Hence, it easily gives nucleophilic substitution reaction.
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