Your teacher gives you two bottles, one with ethanol and the other with methanol without labelling. i. Write a suitable test to distinguish them. ii. By. using the same test, can you distinguish between propan-1-ol and ethanol? Write the chemical equation.

Explanation

i) The liquid which gives iodoform tesf is.ethanol. Methanol do not give iodofórm test. Ethanot react with alkaline solution of Iodine `(1 / N a O H)` to form yellow precipitate of iodoform.
i) Yes. Ethanol gives iodoform-test while propan-l-ol do not give iodoform test.

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CH_3 CH_2 OH+3 I_2+4 NaOH rarr CHl_3+HCOONa+
3 H, O+3 Nal