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Acidity of Alpha-Hydrogens in Carbonyls

JEE Main asked Acidity of Alpha-Hydrogens in Carbonyls 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2020 and 2022. It belongs to Organic Acidity and Basicity, in Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 2 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
2
in 2 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2020
last in 2022
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2020 and 2022. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.050.10’170.08’200’210.03’220’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 1 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20221 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20201 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Diagram based is the usual form. Skill tested: conceptual.

  • Order/ranking of acidity of marked proton
  • Order/ranking of acidity of alpha hydrogens

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 2Hard 0

Every question was multiple choice.

Every question

All 2 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q74Among the following marked proton of which compound shows lowest pKa\mathrm{pK_a} value ?MediumSingle correctHas a figure
  2. 5 Sep 2020, Shift 1 · Q30The increasing order of the acidity of the α\alpha-hydrogen of the following compounds is :MediumDiagram basedHas a figure

Shifts: 5 Sep 2020, Shift 1, 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1.

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