Download the app

Questions  

Which of the following reactions is highly exothermic?

Remember concepts with our Masterclasses.

80k Users
60 mins Expert Faculty Ask Questions
a
Fluorniation of benzene
b
Chloroniation of benzene
c
Bromination of benzene
d
Iodination of benzene

Ready to Test Your Skills?

Check Your Performance Today with our Free Mock Tests used by Toppers!

detailed solution

Correct option is A

As we advance down the group, the electrophilicity and electronegativity of halogens drop. Hence Iodine is the least reactive element, while fluorine is the most reactive. Fluorination is a highly reactive process, whereas iodination is a highly non-reactive process.
Moving down the group also results in a drop in the exothermic rates. Fluorination produces explosive, extremely exothermic compounds that are polyfluorinated. As a result, fluorinating benzene directly is risky and complicated.
Fluorine is added to aromatic rings in indirect methods. Through the Balz-Schiemann reaction, fluorobenzene can be produced from benzene diazonium chloride. In this reaction, a diazonium tetrafluoroborate intermediate transforms an aromatic amine into an aryl fluoride. It is usual practise to obtain fluorobenzene and its derivatives using this approach.

The conversion has the following form: Nitrous acid is used to treat aniline to create benzene diazonium chloride, which is then transformed into benzene diazonium fluoroborate by a reaction with HBF4. It undergoes breakdown upon additional heating, producing fluorobenzene. The response is displayed below:

Talk to our academic expert!

+91

Are you a Sri Chaitanya student?

ctaimg

Create Your Own Test
Your Topic, Your Difficulty, Your Pace



Practice More Questions

Easy Questions

Moderate Questions

Difficult Questions


Download the app

phone icon
whats app icon