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Select the correct statement(s) about the acidity of alkynes.

  1. ABut-2-yne is more acidic than but-1-yne because it has more alkyl groups.
  2. BSodium ethynide is protonated by water, regenerating ethyne.
  3. CThe carbon has 50 percent s-character, which stabilises the conjugate base .
  4. DEthyne is converted quantitatively into sodium ethynide by aqueous .

Answer: B, C

The first two are correct: s-character stabilises the carbanion, but ethyne ( about 25) is a weaker acid than water ( about 15.7), so hydroxide cannot deprotonate it and the ethynide is hydrolysed by water. But-2-yne has no sp C-H hydrogen, and alkyl groups would destabilise a carbanion anyway.
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