First slide
Organic reagents and intermediates
Question

Which of the following has least pKb value?

Moderate
Solution

In (3), –NMe2 group is thrown out of the plane of the aromatic ring, i.e. lone pair of electrons on N atom are not involved in conjugation and hence most basic.
Hence, the correct answer is (3).

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