JEE Main · Chemistry · Amines
Nitrating Mixture and Nitronium Ion Generation
JEE Main asked Nitrating Mixture and Nitronium Ion Generation 3 times in 3 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2020, 2024 and 2025. It belongs to Aromatic Hydrocarbons, in Amines (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 4 years.
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 3
- in 3 shifts
- Years
- 3 of 8
- First asked
- 2020
- last in 2025
- Pattern
- Frequent
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2020, 2024 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.
Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 1 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 1 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.
How JEE Main framed it
Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: application.
- Reactant mass from product mass
- Nitronium ion formation statement pair
Difficulty
1 of the 3 questions had a numerical answer.
Every question
All 3 questions
From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.
- 3 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q74X g of nitrobenzene on nitration gave 4.2 g of m-dinitrobenzene. X = __________ g. (nearest integer) [Given : molar mass (in…MediumNumerical value
- 5 Apr 2024, Shift 1 · Q74Given below are two statements : Statement I : Nitration of benzene involves the following step -…EasyTwo statementsHas a figure
- 2 Sep 2020, Shift 2 · Q40The major product of the following reaction is : reactant (drawn structure) with the arrow labelled: conc. + conc.…MediumSingle correctHas a figure
Shifts: 2 Sep 2020, Shift 2, 5 Apr 2024, Shift 1, 3 Apr 2025, Shift 2.
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