Q 12.4 Arrange the following compounds in increasing order of their reactivity in nucleophilic addition reactions.
(i) Ethanal, Propanal, Propanone, Butanone.
By the above structure, we can see that, due to +I effect of alkyl group te electron density at Carbonyl carbon increase from ethanal to bytanone. And so the tendency of attacking nucleophile is decreased.
Thus the increasig order (reactivity towards nucleophile)-
Butanone < propanone < propanal < ethanal