NEET UG 2026 · Chemistry · Question 72
NEET 2026 Chemistry, question 72
Question 72 of the NEET 2026 paper (re-exam) is a Chemistry question from Haloalkanes and Haloarenes. Its idea, Grignard Reagents, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q72 · Chemistry
One of the products formed in the following reaction is
[Cyclohexyl–MgBr + Cyclohexyl– ]
The figure, described in words
Reactant and option structures drawn as skeletal rings: cyclohexylmagnesium bromide + cyclohexylamine; options dicyclohexylamine, 2-cyclohexylcyclohexanamine, bicyclohexyl, cyclohexane.
- 1[dicyclohexylamine: two cyclohexyl rings joined through NH]
- 2[2-cyclohexylcyclohexan-1-amine: bicyclohexyl with NH2 on the ring carbon adjacent to the ring junction]
- 3[bicyclohexyl: two cyclohexane rings joined by a single bond]
- 4[cyclohexane]Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Grignard Reagents
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
The chapter
Haloalkanes and Haloarenes in ten years of NEET
16 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 1.5 a paper. Nucleophilic Substitution alone had 16.