NEET UG 2025 · Chemistry · Question 49
NEET 2025 Chemistry, question 49
Question 49 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Chemistry question from Amines. Its idea, Mendius Reduction Reaction, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q49 · Chemistry
Predict the major product 'P' in the following sequence of reactions -
1-Methylcyclopentene P (Major)
The figure, described in words
Reactant drawn as 1-methylcyclopentene; all four options are drawn cyclopentane structures.
- 1[structure: cyclopentane with CH3 and CH2NH2 on adjacent carbons ((2-methylcyclopentyl)methanamine)]Official answer
- 2[structure: cyclopentane with CH3 and CH2NH2 on the same carbon]
- 3[structure: cyclopentane with CH3 and NC (isocyanide) on adjacent carbons]
- 4[structure: cyclopentane with NC (isocyanide) and CH3 on the same carbon]
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Mendius Reduction Reaction
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Mendius Reduction Reaction: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Amines in ten years of NEET
18 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 1.7 a paper. Amines and Diazonium Salts alone had 18.