NEET UG 2025 · Chemistry · Question 74
NEET 2025 Chemistry, question 74
Question 74 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Chemistry question from Amines. Its idea, Synthesis of Iodobenzene from Diazonium, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q74 · Chemistry
Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Benzenediazonium salt is prepared by the reaction of aniline with nitrous acid at 273 - 278 K. It decomposes easily in the dry state.
Statement II : Insertion of iodine into the benzene ring is difficult and hence iodobenzene is prepared through the reaction of benzenediazonium salt with KI.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- 1Both Statement I and Statement II are correctOfficial answer
- 2Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
- 3Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
- 4Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Synthesis of Iodobenzene from Diazonium
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Synthesis of Iodobenzene from Diazonium: 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.