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How would you account for the following : The boiling points of ethers are much lower than those of the alcohols of comparable molar masses.

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MODERN PUBLICATION-ALCOHOLS, PHENOLS AND ETHERS-EXERCISE
  1. Express 3102 in roman numbers.

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  2. Write the structural formulae of all the possible ethers having the mo...

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  3. How would you account for the following : The boiling points of ethers...

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  4. What are primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols? What happens when p...

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  5. Explain why is ortho nitrophenol more acidic than ortho methoxyphenol ...

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  6. Express 3103 in roman numbers.

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  7. Express 3105 in roman numbers.

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  8. How will you prepare phenol from chlorobenzene ? Write equation.

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  9. Express 3106 in roman numbers.

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  10. Express 3107 in roman numbers.

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  11. Explain that the relative ease of dehydration of alcohols is tertiary ...

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  12. Why Phenols are more acidic than Alcohol ?

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  13. Discuss the dehydrogenation of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohol...

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  14. Write the reaction of primary , secondary and tertiary alcohols w...

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  15. Give reason for the higher boiling point of propan-1-ol than butane.

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  16. Accomplish the following conversions. Benzyl chloride to 2-phenyleth...

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  17. How will you convert ethanol to ethanoic acid ?

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  18. Why has phenol, higher boiling point than toluene ?

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  19. Alcohols are soluble in water while alkyl halides arenot, although bot...

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  20. How do you convert the following : Phenol to anisole.

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