why is vinyl chloride unreactive in nucleophilic substitution reactions
Vinyl chloride (CH2=CHCl) is unreactive in nucleophilic substitution reaction due to resonance. In vinyl chloride, the lone pair of electrons on chlorine is in resonance with the C-C double bond, because of which there is partial double bond character in C-Cl bond. Because of this double bond character, the C-Cl bond becomes stronger and hence difficult to break.