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If I am not mistaken , p-block is not a compound ! CO is the most common OXIDE reducing agent . Do you expect Sodium oxide to behave as a good reducing agent ?

As I said , give an exmple of the compound . Metallic and non-metallic oxides have different variations .

The sign is important . Comparisons are drawn based on the algebriac value of potential energy .

Please provide an example where you have the doubt

Almost all reactions are . Yes . TNT is produced by step by step nitration with increasing temperature and purity of acids . No problem . Chloro group is weakly deactivating itself . In chlorobenzene case , polynitration would be dependent on temperature to an extent but stating...

Anyway this was what I posted out there ( same question ) and got the answer . Thanks !

Of course the lone pair resonance is stronger . Thats why toluene will take harsher conditions than phenol . And I meant that by your theory , "even weakly acrivating groups will give the reaction" .

I don't see you mentioning your answer and your attempt above . Anyway , your answer is correct .

Well , giving out the answer directly won't do you good and it would (maybe) be against the forum rules . Think about Le Chateliers principle and the temperature variation of equilibrium constant . You must have surely learned this .

But its better to know the reason as luck and logical reasoning may not always help you . Google up Gibbs Free Energy :)

Its correct . change in gibbs free energy becomes zero when equilibrium is attained

And you have got the reason of toluene wrong . Its not +I effect but the hyperconjugation .

the methyl group activates o-p by HC , if nitration indirectly activates meta position , why shouldn't toluene give trinitration . Since your argument is not based on the activating group , even a weakly activating group should give the rxn .

even a weak o-p director should give trinitration but all don't give

But in that case trinitration of toluene shoulalso happen which is not correct