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  • Ethyl alcohol reacts at a faster rate with HI than with HCl in forming the corresponding ethyl halides under identical conditions mainly because -Option: 1

Ethyl alcohol reacts at a faster rate with HI than with HCl in forming the corresponding ethyl halides under identical conditions mainly because -

Option: 1

HI, being a stronger acid, protonates ethyl alcohol at oxygen much better and helps substitution


Option: 2

the bond length in HI is much shorter than that in HCl


Option: 3

I- is a much better leaving group

           


Option: 4

I- is a much better nucleophile than Cl-


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Order of reactivity of halogen acids -

HI>HBr>HCl

- wherein

ROR'+HX\rightarrow ROH+R'X

 

I- is a much better nucleophile than Cl-.

Therefore, Option(4) is correct.

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SANGALDEEP SINGH

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