NEET UG 2022 · Chemistry · Question 54
NEET 2022 Chemistry, question 54
Question 54 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Chemistry question from Hydrocarbons. Its idea, Aromaticity and Huckel's Rule, was asked twice, in 2022 and 2023, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q54 · Chemistry
Which compound amongst the following is not an aromatic compound ?
The figure, described in words
Four ring structures: cycloheptatriene (neutral, with a CH2), cyclopentadienyl anion, tropylium (cycloheptatrienyl) cation, cyclopropenyl cation.
- 1[structure: cyclohepta-1,3,5-triene (neutral, one sp3 CH2)]Official answer
- 2[structure: cyclopentadienyl anion]
- 3[structure: cycloheptatrienyl (tropylium) cation]
- 4[structure: cyclopropenyl cation]
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
Aromaticity and Huckel's Rule, in other papers
NEET asked this idea twice, in 2022 and 2023. The other question below.
- 2023 Q98Consider the following compounds/species : i. [structure: naphthalene] ii. [structure: cyclopentadienyl anion] iii. [structure:…One-line MCQ · Medium
Aromaticity and Huckel's Rule: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Hydrocarbons in ten years of NEET
25 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.4 a paper. Hydrocarbons (Alkenes) alone had 12.