Question

Assertion: Chloral reacts with phenyl chloride to form DDT
Reason: It is an electrophilic substitution reaction.

• A. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
• B. If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
• C. If assertion is true but reason is false
• D. If both assertion and reason are false

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

When chlorobenzene is heated with chloral in the presence of conc. $H_2SO_4$ , a powerful insecticide, DDT is formed with the elimination of water molecule.