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Excess chlorine passed through boiling toluene, how many chloride derivatives would you get?

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answer is 3.

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When chlorine is passed through boiling toluene then free radical substitution occurs, each Cl atom is replaced by one hydrogen. There are three derivatives formed when Cl boiled with toulene: benzyl chloride, benzal chloride dichloride and benzotrichloride.

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