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Special Suffixes for Ring-Attached Functional Groups
JEE Main asked Special Suffixes for Ring-Attached Functional Groups once in the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, on 4 Sep 2020, Shift 1. It belongs to IUPAC Nomenclature, in Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques (Chemistry).
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 1
- in 1 shift
- Years
- 1 of 8
- First asked
- 2020
- the only year
- Pattern
- Gone quiet
- asked once so far
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2020. 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: 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.
How JEE Main framed it
Diagram based is the usual form. Skill tested: application.
- Iupac name of substituted ring acid
Difficulty
The question was multiple choice.
Every question
The question
From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.
Shift: 4 Sep 2020, Shift 1.
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