JEE Main · 2026 · 05 Apr 2026 · Shift 2 · Compounds Containing Nitrogen

Heating benzamide with bromine in ethanolic sodium hydroxide is the Hofmann bromamide degradation, which removes the carbonyl carbon and gives aniline, $\mathrm{Ph}-\mathrm{N}{\mathrm{H}}_2$, not benzylamine, so Statement-I is false. When aniline is nitrated in the strongly acidic $\mathrm{HN}{\mathrm{O}}_3/{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{O}}_4$ mixture at $288\mathrm{K}$, it is largely protonated to the anilinium ion, whose $-\mathrm{N}{\mathrm{H}}_3^{+}$ group is deactivating and meta-directing, so an appreciable amount of m-nitroaniline is produced along with the ortho isomer, and Statement-II is taken as true. Statement-I is false but Statement-II is true.