Q1ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
Which of the following can absorb over
of its own mass of water and also
does not stick to wounds?
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Part of Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen in JEE Main Chemistry.
- General methods of preparation, properties, reactions and uses of Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
- Alcohols: Identification of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, mechanism of dehydration
- Phenols: Acidic nature, electrophilic substitution reactions, halogenation, nitration and sulphonation, Reimer Tiemann reaction
- Ethers: Structure
- Aldehyde and Ketones: Nature of carbonyl group, nucleophilic addition to >C=O group, relative reactivities of aldehydes and ketones
- Important reactions such as Nucleophilic addition reactions (addition of HCN, NH3 and its derivatives), Grignard reagent, oxidation, reduction (Wolf Kishner and Clemmensen), the acidity of alpha-hydrogen
- Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction, Haloform reaction, chemical tests to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones
- Carboxylic Acids: Acidic strength and factors affecting it
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Q2ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
By the reduction of carbonyl compounds
the alcohol not obtained is:
Q3ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
Which of the following is most soluble in water?
Q4ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
Which of the following products are formed when ethyl alcohol is heated
with
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Q5ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
Assertion
Alcohols are dehydrated to hydrocarbons in the presence of acidic
zeolites
Reason
Zeolites are porous catalysts.
Q6ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
Which of the following is used as life saving substance as blood plasma?
Q7ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
A compound (X) of molecular formula
can be oxidized to a compound
of molecular is most
likely to be
Q8ChemistryUnit 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen
Which compound is a secondary alcohol?
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