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The product formed (hydroxybutanitrile) is optically inactive because the nitrile nucleophile can attack the propane at its carbonyl bond which is trigonal planar about it. There is an equal chance of it ...

Cyclohexene's structure is 6 carbons bonded in a ring, with a single double bond existing between carbons 1 and 6Benzene is also a 6 carbon ring, however it has a delocalised electron ring around the stru...

Ethanoic acid is the most acidic of the three. This is because once ethanoic acid has lost a proton the negative charge can be spread over two oxygen atoms via two resonance forms. Oxygen atoms are electr...

Atoms that share electrons due to the electrostatic attraction between the negatively charged pair of electrons and positively charged nuclei.

There are two reasons: increasing atomic size and increasing shielding effect.
Increasing atomic size - As you go down the Group, the atom size becomes larger, therefore the electron that must be rem...