NEET UG 2024 · Chemistry · Question 80
NEET 2024 Chemistry, question 80
Question 80 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Chemistry question from Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques. Its idea, Intermediate Stability, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q80 · Chemistry
The most stable carbocation among the following is:
The figure, described in words
Options are drawn carbocations: (1) cyclopentyl-CH2(+), (2) 1-methylcyclohexyl cation (tertiary, + on ring carbon bearing CH3), (3) H3C-CH(+)-CH(CH3)-CH3, (4) CH3-CH(+)-CH2-CH(CH3)-CH3.
- 1[structure: cyclopentyl-H]
- 2[structure: 1-methylcyclohexyl cation, on the ring carbon bearing CH]Official answer
- 3[structure: HC-H-CH(CH)-CH]
- 4[structure: CH-H-CH-CH(CH)-CH]
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Intermediate Stability
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Intermediate Stability: 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. Electronic Effects alone had 4.