Ncert Exercises & Solutions

Given below are two statements:

Assertion (A):	Sulpha drug contains a sulphonamide group.
Reason (R):	Salvarsan is a sulpha drug.

1.	Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason does not explain assertion.
2.	Assertion and reason both are correct and reason explains the assertion.
3.	Both assertion and reason are wrong statements.
4.	Assertion is the correct statement reason is the wrong statement.

Hint: Sulpha drug contains a sulphonamide group

Sulfa drugs also called sulfonamide and synthetic antibiotics containing the sulfanilamide molecular structure is a sulfa drug.

Salvarsan is an antibiotic and it is not a sulpha drug because it does not contain sulfonamide.

The structure is as follows:

Hence, Assertion is the correct statement reason is the wrong statement.