Odisha Board Solutions for Chapter: Alcohols, Exercise 1: QUESTIONS

What happens when ethanol reacts with ethanoic acid?

What happens when ethanol reacts with red phosphorus and iodine?

How can you distinguish between primary, secondary and tertiary alcohol by oxidation method? 

Write the principle of manufacture of ethyl alcohol from starchy materials. 

How can you prepare a)methyl alcohol from ethyl alcohol b)ethyl alcohol from methyl alcohol? 

Describe the principle of manufacture of methyl alcohol from wood. Give conversion of methyl alcohol to ethyl alcohol and vice versa.

How would you distinguish between $1^{\mathrm{o}}, 2^{\mathrm{o}}$ and $3^{\mathrm{o}}$ alcohols by oxidation method?

How would you distinguish between $1^{\mathrm{o}}, 2^{\mathrm{o}}$ and $3^{\mathrm{o}}$ alcohols by catalytic dehydrogenation method?

How do you classify different types of monohydric alcohols? Distinguish the classes of alcohols by Victor Meyer's method. How methyl alcohol can be converted to ethyl alcohol?