Out of chlorobenzene and benzyl chloride, which one gets easily hydrolysed by aqueous NaOH and why?
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Benzyl chloride is more readily hydrolysed in aqueous NaOH.
In chlorobenzene, the lone pair of chlorine is in conjugation with the $\pi$-bond of benzene.
This develops the partial double bond character which results in the reduced reactivity of chlorobenzene.
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Write the structure of the major organic product in each of the following reaction:
$\text{CH}_3\text{CH}=\text{C}(\text{CH}_3)_2+\text{HBr}\xrightarrow{}$