Q. Which of the following statements regarding amides is not correct?
A) Amides do not form salts when treated with aqueous acids
B) The aqueous solutions of amides are alkaline
C) Amides are very poor nucleophiles
D) Amides are considerably less reactive than acid chlorides
Explanation
(c)
Acid amides are least reactive towards nucleophile amongst the all acid derivatives because of electron deficiency of the acyl carbon due to $–I$ effect of the $–NH_{2}$ group. In other way, lone pair of electrons undergoes resonance with [image:12_image634.emf]group as
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It is because of this alkanamides are amphoteric in nature
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