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Explain why sodium metal can be used for drying diethyl ether but not ethyl alcohol ?

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MODERN PUBLICATION-ALCOHOLS,PHENOLS AND ETHERS-EXERCISE
  1. Explain, why phenol is acidic, while ethyl alcohol is neutral.

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  2. What is Reimer-Tiemann reaction?

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  3. Explain why sodium metal can be used for drying diethyl ether but not ...

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  4. Explain esterification of phenol

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  5. What happens when phenyl acetate is heated with anhydrous aluminium ch...

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  6. How can methyl alcohol be converted into ethyl alcohol?

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  7. Identify A, B,C and D.

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  8. Find f(sqrt2) and f(-sqrt3) for the function

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  9. draw the structure of 2,6 -dimethyl phenol

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  10. how is phenol prepared from aniline?

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  11. how will you convert propan-1-ol to propan-2-ol?

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  12. How will you prepare ethyl alcohol from acetaldehyde and ethyl acetate...

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  13. How is phenol prepared by Dow's process?What happens when phenol is tr...

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  14. how will you distinguish between 1-phenylethanol and 2-phenyl ethanol?

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  15. why are ethers relativity inert compounds?

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  16. Find f(sqrt2) and f(-sqrt3) for the function

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  17. The most suitable method of separation of 1 :1 mixture of ortho and pa...

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  18. Arrange the following compounds in the decreasing order of their boili...

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  19. Give an account of neucleophilic substitution reactions in haloarenes?

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  20. Which of the following cannot be prepared by Williamson synthesis ?

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