JEE Advanced2025Paper 1CHEM-I
Q.
Consider the depicted hydrogen (H) in the hydrocarbons given below. The most acidic hydrogen (H) is
- A

- B

- C

- D

Solution

Acidity is determined by the stability of the conjugate base. Removal of the marked H in structure (B) places the resulting carbanion on a carbon attached to the cyclopentadiene ring. Delocalisation pushes the negative charge into the ring, completing an aromatic six -electron system (cyclopentadienide-like).
The conjugate bases from the other structures are not aromatic and have no comparable stabilisation.
Structure (B) provides the most acidic H. Option (B).