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What is denatured alcohol ?

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Ethyl alcohol containing small amount of pyridine. Methyl alcohol or copper sulphate is know as denaturated alcohol. All of them being posionous in nature , render alcohol unfite for drinking purposes.
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DINESH PUBLICATION-ETHERS-SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
  1. Name the factors responsible for the solubility of alcohols in water .

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  2. Suggest a reagent for the following conversion

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  3. What is denatured alcohol ?

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  4. Out of 2-chloroethanol and ethanol which is more acidic and why ?

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  5. suggest a reagent for the conversion of ehanol to ethanal.

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  6. Suggest a reagent for conversion of ethanol to ethanoic acid.

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  7. Out of o-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol, which is more volatile ? Expla...

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  8. Out of o-nitrophenol and o-cresol which is more acidic ?

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  9. When phenol is treated with bromine water, white precipitate is obtain...

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  10. Arrange the given compouns in decreasing order of acidity and give a s...

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  11. Alcohols react with active metals e.g., Na, K etc., to give correspond...

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  12. What happens when benzene diazonium chloride is heated with water ?

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  13. Arrange the following compounds in decreasing order of acidity. H(2)...

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  14. Name the enzymes and write the reactions involved in the preparation o...

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  15. How can propan-2-one be converted into tert-butyl alcohol ?

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  16. Write the structures of the isomers of alcohols with molecular formula...

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  17. Explain why is OH group in phenols more strongly held as compared to O...

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  18. Explain why nucleophilic substitution reactions rae not very common in...

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  19. Preparation of alcohols from alkenes involves the electrophilic attack...

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  20. Explain why is O=C=O non polar while R-O-R is polar ?

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