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How is methanol prepared, now-a-days, commercially? 

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Most of the methanol is now prepared by catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide at high pressure and high temperature. `CO + 2H_2 undersetA(300 atm, 600 K)overset(ZnO,Cr_2O_3)(rarr) CH_3OH`.
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AAKASH SERIES-ALCOHOLS, PHENOLS AND ETHERS-EXAMPLES
  1. Write two examples of cycloalkanols and their IUPAC names.

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  2. Write the structures of the alcohols with the molecular formula, C5H12...

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  3. How is methanol prepared, now-a-days, commercially?

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  4. How acetylene is converted to ethyl alcohol ?

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  5. How is n-propyl alcohol prepared from propene ?

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  6. CH(3)-underset(CH(3))underset(|)CH-CH=CH(2)+H(2)O overset(H^(+))toX ...

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  7. Suggest a method for the conversion of CH(3)-CH(2)-NH(3) into ethyl al...

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  8. How is methyl alcohol converted to ethyl alcohol?

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  9. Write the order of reactivity of CH3OH(I), C2H5OH(II), underset("OH")u...

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  10. tert-Butyl alcohol is much more soluble in water than n-butyl alcohol....

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  11. What happens when one drinks ethanol mixed with methanol? Why?

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  12. Write the strucutre of the product and mechanism of the following reac...

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  13. Identify the stronger acid among the following: Butanol-1, butan-2-ol,...

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  14. A is the major product. What is 'A' ?

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  15. How do you distinguish between methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol?

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  16. What happens when ethyl alcohol is treated with HI and red phosphorous...

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  17. Give the structures and IUPAC names of the products expected from the ...

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  18. Write structures of prudlucts of the following reactions : I) CH3CH=...

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  19. Show how are the following alcohols are prepared by the reaction of a ...

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  20. Arrange the following sets of compounds in order of their increasing b...

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