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NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 54

NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 54

Question 54 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques. Its idea, Lassaigne's Test for N and Halogens, was asked twice, in 2023 and 2025, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q54 · Chemistry

In Lassaigne's extract of an organic compound, both nitrogen and sulphur are present, which gives blood red colour with Fe3+^{3+} due to the formation of -

  1. 1[Fe(SCN)]2+\mathrm{[Fe(SCN)]^{2+}}Official answer
  2. 2Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3⋅xH2O\mathrm{Fe_4[Fe(CN)_6]_3\cdot xH_2O}
  3. 3NaSCN
  4. 4[Fe(CN)5NOS]4−\mathrm{[Fe(CN)_5NOS]^{4-}}

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

Lassaigne's Test for N and Halogens, in other papers

NEET asked this idea twice, in 2023 and 2025. The other question below.

  • 2025 Q90Which one of the following reactions does NOT belong to “Lassaigne's test”?One-line MCQ · Easy

Lassaigne's Test for N and Halogens: 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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