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Title: The strongest base is :
Post by: rohit on September 07, 2018, 11:56:34 PM
Please help me this question.
Title: Re: The strongest base is :
Post by: uma on September 08, 2018, 12:24:15 AM
so what do you want in this question?
basicity order ?
Title: Re: The strongest base is :
Post by: uma on September 09, 2018, 03:21:04 AM
Basicity is due to electron giving or donating  tendency of an atom and depends on
1)Electronegativity of donor atom
2) Delocalization of lone pair due to resonance.
Now in all these examples  N is the donor atom.
in (b) structure lone pair of nitrogen atoms (sp3) are  delocalized due to resonance and hence creating  formal negative charge on N atom which makes it strongest base.
answer is b
check attached file