31.1 Halogen compounds · Run silver nitrate tests on ethanoyl chloride, chloroethane and chlorobenzene together, then see in the electron flow why their reactivity differs so much.
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Run silver nitrate tests on ethanoyl chloride, chloroethane and chlorobenzene together, then see in the electron flow why their reactivity differs so much.
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Describe the silver nitrate observations, and the order of ease of hydrolysis, for an acyl chloride, a chloroalkane and a chloroarene.
Explain why chlorobenzene is much less reactive than chloroethane in terms of delocalisation of a lone pair on chlorine into the ring.
Explain why an acyl chloride is much more reactive than a chloroalkane.
