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Hydrocarbons

Previous year questions with solutions · 2024 – 2026

61Questions
45Papers covered
4.21%Weightage 2026▼ 9.1% vs last year
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Year-wise statistics questions · papers · average per paper · weightage
YearQuestionsPapersAvg / paperWeightage
202620191.14.21% ▼ 9.1% vs last year
202522191.24.63% ▲ 46.5% vs last year
202419210.93.16%

14 questions · newest paper first

Ques. 1JEE Main 2026, 6 April (Evening Shift)

An alkane (Y) requires 8 moles of oxygen for complete combustion and on chlorination with Cl2/h , (Y) gives only one monochlorinated product (Z). The total number of primary carbon atoms in (Y) is .

Ques. 2JEE Main 2026, 2 April (Morning Shift)

One mole of an alkane (x) requires 8 mole oxygen for complete combustion. Sum of number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in the alkane (x) is .

Ques. 3JEE Main 2026, 22 January (Morning Shift)

The cycloalkene (X) on bromination consumes one mole of bromine per mole of (X) and gives the product (Y) in which C : Br ratio is 3:1. The percentage of bromine in the product (Y) is %. (Nearest integer) (Given : molar mass in g mol-1 H : 1, C : 12, O : 16, Br : 80)

Ques. 4JEE Main 2025, 7 April (Evening Shift)

Identify the structure of the final product (D) in the following sequence of the reactions : [figure] Total number of sp2 hybridised carbon atoms in product D is .

Ques. 5JEE Main 2025, 29 January (Evening Shift)

Isomeric hydrocarbons negative Baeyer's test (Molecular formula C9H12) The total number of isomers from above with four different non-aliphatic substitution sites is -

Ques. 6JEE Main 2025, 23 January (Evening Shift)

A compound ' X ' absorbs 2 moles of hydrogen and ' X ' upon oxidation with KMnO4 | H+ gives [figure] The total number of bonds present in the compound ' X ' is .

Ques. 7JEE Main 2025, 22 January (Evening Shift)

The compound with molecular formula C6H6, which gives only one monobromo derivative and takes up four moles of hydrogen per mole for complete hydrogenation has electrons.

Ques. 8JEE Main 2024, 9 April (Evening Shift)

Number of compounds from the following which cannot undergo Friedel-Crafts reactions is: toluene, nitrobenzene, xylene, cumene, aniline, chlorobenzene, m-nitroaniline, m-dinitrobenzene

Ques. 9JEE Main 2024, 6 April (Morning Shift)

The major product of the following reaction is P. CH3C C - CH3 [ (ii) dil. KMnO4 \ 273 K](i) Na/liq. NH3 'P' Number of oxygen atoms present in product 'P' is . (nearest integer)

Ques. 10JEE Main 2024, 1 February (Morning Shift)

Total number of deactivating groups in aromatic electrophilic substitution reaction among the following is . [figure]

Ques. 11JEE Main 2024, 31 January (Morning Shift)

Number of alkanes obtained on electrolysis of a mixture of CH3COONa and C2H5COONa is .

Ques. 12JEE Main 2024, 31 January (Evening Shift)

Number of isomeric products formed by monochlorination of 2-methylbutane in presence of sunlight is .

Ques. 13JEE Main 2024, 29 January (Morning Shift)

[figure] Consider the given reaction. The total number of oxygen atom/s present per molecule of the product (P) is .

Ques. 14JEE Main 2024, 27 January (Morning Shift)

Among the following, total number of meta directing functional groups is (Integer based) -OCH3, -NO2, -CN, -CH3, -NHCOCH3, -COR, -OH, -COOH, -Cl