When concentrated sulphuric acid was added to an unknown salt present in a test tube a brown gas (A) was involved. This gas intensified when copper turnings were added to this test tube. On cooling, the gas (A) changed into a colourless solid (B).
(i) Identify (A) and (B)
(ii) Write the structures of (A) and (B)
(iii) Why does gas (A) change to solid on cooling
Out of chlorobenzene and benzyl chloride, which one gets easily hydrolysed by aqueous NaOH and why?
pKa value of 4-nitrobenzoic acid is lower than that of benzoic acid.
It is due to e– with drawing nature of –NO2 attach at the para position of Benzene due to which tends to lose H+ ion increases and acidic character increases.