nitromethane or nitroethane,which is more acidic in nature?with reason
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23rd Feb, 2020
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Nitromethane is more acidic because,
The H of Nitromethane i.e. CH3NO2 is acidic because of the electron withdrawing nature of NO2 group. The nitro group withdraws electron density on carbon towards itself which weakens the C-H bond and so the cleavage of C-H bond becomes easy and thus H making the H acidic.
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