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NEET UG 2025 · Chemistry · Question 60

NEET 2025 Chemistry, question 60

Question 60 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Chemistry question from Hydrocarbons. Its idea, Aromatization (Reforming), was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q60 · Chemistry

Which one of the following reactions does NOT give benzene as the product ?

The figure, described in words

Options drawn with structures: sodium benzoate, zig-zag n-hexane, acetylene, benzenediazonium chloride.

  1. 1C6H5COO−Na+→ΔsodalimeC_6H_5COO^-Na^+ \xrightarrow[\Delta]{\text{sodalime}}
  2. 2n-hexane →Mo2O3, 773K, 10−20 atm.\xrightarrow{Mo_2O_3,\ 773K,\ 10-20\ atm.}
  3. 3H−C≡C−H→red hot Iron Tube at 873 KH-C\equiv C-H \xrightarrow{\text{red hot Iron Tube at 873 K}}
  4. 4C6H5N2+Cl−→H2O, warmC_6H_5N_2^+Cl^- \xrightarrow{H_2O,\ warm}Official answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Aromatization (Reforming)

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Aromatization (Reforming): every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Hydrocarbons in ten years of NEET

25 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.4 a paper. Hydrocarbons (Alkanes) alone had 9.

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Hydrocarbons: questions per paper

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