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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

why vinyl halide are more reactive than aryl halide?

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9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer9 Years ago
Three reasons:
Due to the Resonance effect it becomes a dominating factor.
Due to the difference in hybridization in C-X atoms
And also due to instability of phenyl cation as it possess the self ionization.