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Q.Acetamide is
(a) Acidic
(b) Alkaline
(c) Amphoteric
(d) Neutral
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →The nitrogen lone pair of acetamide is tied up in resonance with the C=O group, so the compound is essentially neutral in water; the board key marks (d) Neutral.
In acetamide the lone pair on nitrogen is delocalised into the carbonyl group (amide resonance), which removes most of its basic character. As a result acetamide neither turns red litmus blue to any appreciable extent nor behaves as an acid in water - it is taken as essentially neutral …
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