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Benzaldehyde and acetone can be best dis...

Benzaldehyde and acetone can be best distinguished using ……..

A

Fehling's solution

B

Sodium hydroxide solution

C

2,4-DNP

D

Tollen's reagent

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The correct Answer is:
D
Benzaldehyde is a weak reducing agent. It reduces ammoniacal silver nitrate solution to give silver mirror.
`C_6H_5CHO + Ag_2O rarr 2Ag darr +C_6H_5COOH`
Acetone is not easily oxidised & hence, does not give the Tollen.s test.
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