1) How would you prepare a trans alkene from an alkyne? Give its mechanism.
2) Arrange the following in the decreasing order of their basic strength. Justify your answer. Alkanide anion; alkenide anion; alkynide anion
3) What is resonance energy? Explain taking the example of benzene.
4) What do you understand by para-directing activators, para-directing deactivators and meta-directing deactivators?