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Assertion : Chloral reacts with phenyl chloride to form DDT. Reason : It is an electrophilic substitution reaction.

Options

  1. AIf both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
  2. BIf both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
  3. CIf assertion is true but reason is false.
  4. DIf both assertion and reason are false.

Correct answer

C. If assertion is true but reason is false.

Step-by-step solution

When chlorobenzene is heated with chloral in the presence of conc. ( H ₂ SO ₄ ), a powerful insecticide, DDT is formed with the elimination of water molecule.

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