Among the following compounds, which one has the shortest C – Cl bond?

Among the following compounds, which one has the shortest C–Cl bond?
  3. H3C-Cl

Solution

Due to conjugation of lone pair of chlorine with π bond of C–C, partial double bond character decrease bond length that’s why CH2=CH–Cl have C–Clshortest bond length.

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