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  4. The compound that is most difficult to protonate is:

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Q. The compound that is most difficult to protonate is:

NEETNEET 2019Alcohols Phenols and Ethers

Solution:

Due to involvement of lone pair of electrons in resonance in phenol, it will have positive charge (partial), hence incoming proton will not be able to attack easily.