Why vinyl chloride is less reactive than ethyl chloride towards nucleophilic substitution reaction?
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Why vinyl chloride is less reactive than ethyl chloride towards nucleophilic substitution reaction?
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Vinyl Chloride is less reactive than ethyl chloride towards nucleophilic reaction because of resonance.
- When vinyl chloride undergoes resonance, the carbon chloride bond is converted into double bonds which decreases the reactivity.
- This is occurring because the lone pairs present in the chlorine atoms undergo resonance with the carbon-carbon bond due to which there is the formation of a partial carbon-chloride bond.
- Whereas ethyl chloride has a single bond, it is easier to break the bonds in the nucleophilic reaction and difficult to break the double bonds present in the vinyl chloride.
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