Chemical Properties of Alcohols
Chemical Properties of Alcohols: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Dehydration of Alcohols, Chemical Properties of Alcohols, Dehydrogenation of Alcohols, Mechanism of Dehydration of Alcohols, Acidic Character of Alcohols and, Alcohols as Nucleophiles
Important Questions on Chemical Properties of Alcohols
An organic compound A has the molecular formula . It gets hydrolysed with dilute sulphuric acid and gives a carboxylic acid B and an alcohol C. Oxidation of C with chromic acid also produced B. C on dehydration reaction gives D. Identify A, B, C and D?

Aldol reaction is used as one of the step for which of the following conversions :
(i) Ethanol to 3-hydroxybutanal
(ii) Benzaldehyde to Benzophenone

The following pairs of compounds can be distinguished by which of the following test:
(i) Acetophenone and Benzophenone
(ii) Ethanal and Propanal

Acid catalyzed hydration of alkenes except ethene leads to the formation of

Among the following the one that gives positive iodoform test depend upon reaction with and NaOH is –

The main product of the following reactions is

During dehydration of alcohols to alkenes by heating with concentrated the initiation step is –

The final product in the sequence of reactions is :

Which amongst the following will be most readily dehydrated under acidic conditions?


For the given reaction
The, total number of possible products formed by tertiary carbocation of is

In the above reaction, left hand side and right hand side rings are named as and respectively. They undergo ring expansion. The correct statement for this process is:

In the reaction given below
is:

Product formed in the above reaction is:

The number of hyperconjugation structures involved to stabilize carbocation formed in the above reaction is __________.

In the following reaction, ‘’ is

The correct order of acidic strenght of the given compounds is:

Identify in the following reactions:
What happens when is preserved in the presence of air and light? Why is dry used as a medium in the preperation of Grignard reagent?

When ethyl alcohol is heated with red phosphorus and , then which of the following is formed.

What happens when ethanol reacts with ?
