NEET UG 2022 · Chemistry · Question 58
NEET 2022 Chemistry, question 58
Question 58 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Chemistry question from Haloalkanes and Haloarenes. Its idea, Stereochemical Outcomes, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q58 · Chemistry
The incorrect statement regarding chirality is :
- 1A racemic mixture shows zero optical rotation.
- 2 reaction yields 1 : 1 mixture of both enantiomers.
- 3The product obtained by reaction of haloalkane having chirality at the reactive site shows inversion of configuration.
- 4Enantiomers are superimposable mirror images on each other.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Stereochemical Outcomes
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Stereochemical Outcomes: every question and how it was framed
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Haloalkanes and Haloarenes in ten years of NEET
16 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 1.5 a paper. Nucleophilic Substitution alone had 16.