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Date November 2020 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 20N.2.sl.TZ0.d(i)
Level sl Paper 2 Time zone TZ0
Command term State Question number d(i) Adapted from N/A
d(i).
[Maximum mark: 1]
20N.2.sl.TZ0.d(i)

Chlorine undergoes many reactions.

State the type of reaction occurring when ethane reacts with chlorine to produce chloroethane.

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Markscheme

«free radical» substitution/SR


Do not accept electrophilic or nucleophilic substitution.

Examiners report

More than half of the candidates identified the type of reaction between ethane and chlorine as a substitution reaction. A few candidates lost the marks for writing 'electrophilic substitution' or 'nucleophilic substitutions'.