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NEET UG 2017 · Chemistry · Question 70

NEET 2017 Chemistry, question 70

Question 70 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Chemistry question from Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques. Its idea, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q70 · Chemistry

The correct statement regarding electrophile is :

  1. 1Electrophile is a negatively charged species and can form a bond by accepting a pair of electrons from a nucleophile
  2. 2Electrophile is a negatively charged species and can form a bond by accepting a pair of electrons from another electrophile
  3. 3Electrophiles are generally neutral species and can form a bond by accepting a pair of electrons from a nucleophile
  4. 4Electrophile can be either neutral or positively charged species and can form a bond by accepting a pair of electrons from a nucleophileOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

The only question on Electrophiles and Nucleophiles

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Electrophiles and Nucleophiles: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques in ten years of NEET

22 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.1 a paper. Purification, Analysis and Isomerism of Organic Compounds alone had 11.

Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques: questions per paper

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