vinyl chloride is unreactive in nucleophilic substitution reaction why?
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Vinyl chloride (CH2=CHCl) is unreactive in nucleophilic substitution reaction due to resonance. In vinyl chloride, the lone pair of electrons on chlorine is in resonance with the C-C double bond, because of which there is partial double bond character in C-Cl bond.
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Vinyl chloride (CH2=CHCl) is unreactive in nucleophilic substitution reaction due to resonance. In vinyl chloride, the lone pair of electrons on chlorine is in resonance with the C-C double bond, because of which there is partial double bond character in C-Cl bond.
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