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Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Aniline is less basic than acetamide.
Statement II : In aniline, the lone pair of electrons on nitrogen atom is delocalised over benzene ring due to resonance and hence less available to a proton.
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B
Explanation :- aniline is more basic than acetamide because in acetamide, lone pair of nitrogen is delocalised to more electronegative elementoxygen. In Aniline lone pair of nitrogen delocalised over benzene ring
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