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Which of the following statements about benzyl chloride is incorrect?
ChemistryHaloalkanes and HaloarenesCOMEDKCOMEDK 2016
Options:
  • A It is a lachrymatory liquid and answers Beilstein's test.
  • B It gives a white precipitate with alcoholic silver nitrate.
  • C It is less reactive than alkyl halides.
  • D It can be oxidised to benzaldehyde by boiling with copper nitrate solution.
Solution:
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The correct answer is: It is less reactive than alkyl halides.
Benzyl chloride is more reactive than alkyl halides as benzyl carbocation is stabilised by resonance. Hence, it easily gives nucleophilic substitution reaction.

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