NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 57
NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 57
Question 57 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids. Its idea, Cyanohydrins and Nitrile Hydrolysis, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q57 · Chemistry
Complete the following reaction :
Cyclohexanone [A] 1-hydroxycyclohexane-1-carbonitrile (cyclohexanone cyanohydrin) [B] [C]
[C] is ________.
The figure, described in words
Reaction scheme and options drawn as skeletal ring structures: cyclohexanone → cyanohydrin (OH, CN on same carbon) → [C].
- 1[structure: cyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylic acid (COOH on the ring double-bond carbon)]Official answer
- 2[structure: cyclohexanol]
- 3[structure: cyclohexanecarboxylic acid]
- 4[structure: cyclohex-1-ene-1-carbaldehyde (CHO on the ring double-bond carbon)]
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Cyanohydrins and Nitrile Hydrolysis
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Cyanohydrins and Nitrile Hydrolysis: every question and how it was framed
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Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids in ten years of NEET
27 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.6 a paper. Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids alone had 22.