Preparation and Properties of Alcohols
Chemistry ⇒ Carbon and Organic Chemistry
Preparation and Properties of Alcohols starts at 11 and continues till grade 12.
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Describe the Lucas test and its use in distinguishing between primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols.
Describe the mechanism of hydration of ethene to form ethanol.
Explain why lower alcohols are miscible with water in all proportions.
Explain why methanol is toxic to humans.
Explain why tertiary alcohols do not undergo oxidation easily.
Name the alcohol that is used as an antifreeze in automobile radiators.
Name the product formed when 1-butanol is oxidized with acidified potassium dichromate.
State one physical property that distinguishes alcohols from alkanes of similar molecular mass.
State the Zaitsev's rule as it applies to the dehydration of alcohols.
What is the major product when 2-methyl-2-propanol is dehydrated?
What is the product when 2-propanol is oxidized?
Which alcohol is commonly known as wood alcohol?
Which alcohol is formed when ethene reacts with steam in the presence of phosphoric acid catalyst?
Which property of alcohols is responsible for their higher boiling points compared to ethers of similar molecular mass?
Write the balanced chemical equation for the reaction of sodium with ethanol.
Write the equation for the preparation of ethanol by fermentation of glucose.
Write the IUPAC name for CH3CH2OH.
Write the IUPAC name for the following alcohol: CH3CH(OH)CH3.
A student adds concentrated H2SO4 to an alcohol and heats the mixture. The gas evolved is passed through bromine water, which gets decolorized. Identify the gas and explain the observations.
Arrange the following alcohols in increasing order of reactivity towards Lucas reagent: (1) 1-Butanol (2) 2-Butanol (3) 2-Methyl-2-propanol
