NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 91
NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 91
Question 91 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers. Its idea, Acid-Catalysed Dehydration of Alcohols, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q91 · Chemistry
Which amongst the following will be most readily dehydrated under acidic conditions ?
The figure, described in words
Options drawn as skeletal (zig-zag) structures with NO2/OH substituents.
- 1[structure: CH3–CH(NO2)–CH2–CH2–CH(OH)–CH3]
- 2[structure: CH3–CH(NO2)–CH2–CH(OH)–CH3]
- 3[structure: CH3–CH(OH)–CH2–CH(OH)–CH3]Official answer
- 4[structure: CH3–CH(NO2)–CH(OH)–CH2OH]
Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Acid-Catalysed Dehydration of Alcohols
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Acid-Catalysed Dehydration of Alcohols: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers in ten years of NEET
15 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 1.4 a paper. Alcohols and Phenols alone had 15.