Practice Test


Q1) Which of the following is a primary alcohol? Show Answer


Q2) The IUPAC name of tert - butyl alcohol is Show Answer


Q3) When ketones are treated with Grignard reagent followed by hydrolysis with dilute acid, the product is: Show Answer


Q4) On distilling sodium salicylate with soda lime, the product is: Show Answer


Q5) Isopropyl alcohol when treated with copper at 575 K forms Show Answer


Q6) On distilling with zinc dust, phenol gives Show Answer


Q7) Tertiary alcohols on treating with copper at 575 K give Show Answer


Q8) In Lucas test, a primary alcohol gives Show Answer


Q9) The compound which reacts fastest with Lucas reagent at room temperature is Show Answer


Q10) Williamson's synthesis can be used to prepare Show Answer


Q11) Ethylene glycol on oxidation with periodic acid gives Show Answer


Q12) The acylation of salicylic acid with acetic anhydride gives Show Answer


Q13) HBr reacts fastest with Show Answer


Q14) Which of the following is most acidic? Show Answer


Q15) Tonics in general contain Show Answer


Q16) Picric acid is Show Answer


Q17) Rectified spirit contains about Show Answer


Q18) Acetyl chloride reacts with phenol in the presence of dil. Alkali to give Show Answer


Q19) Water gas when mixed with half of its volume of hydrogen and passes over a catalyst mixture of oxides of zinc, copper and chromium under 200 atm. Pressure of 623 - 675 gives Show Answer


Q20) Phenol can be industrially prepared from cumene. It is Show Answer


Q21) Which of the following alcohols cannot be prepared by the action of a suitable Grignard reagent as an aldehyde or a ketone followed by hydrolysis? Show Answer


Q22) In ethyl alcohol, the bond that undergoes heterolytic cleavage most readily is Show Answer


Q23) Which of the following has maximum hydrogen bonding ? Show Answer


Q24) Which of the following compounds is obtained by the reaction of phenol and benzene diazonium chloride? Show Answer


Q25) Sometimes explosion occurs during the distillation of ethers. It is due to the presence of Show Answer


Q26) The compound which is not isomeric with diethyl ether is Show Answer


Q27) Bakelite is formed when phenol condenses with Show Answer


Q28) Which of the following is most viscous liquid? Show Answer


Q29) Ethylene glycol on heating with anhydrous zinc chloride gives Show Answer


Q30) Glycerol on strongly heating with oxalic acid at 503 K gives Show Answer


Q31) Glycerol is commercially prepared from Show Answer


Q32) When glycerol is heated with excess of HI, it forms Show Answer


Q33) Diethyl ether absorbs oxygen to form Show Answer


Q34) When ethylene diamine is treated with nitrous acid, the product formed is: Show Answer


Q35) Which of the following is not true about glycerol? Show Answer


Q36) When glycerine is added to a litre of water, which of the following behaviour is observed? Show Answer


Q37) Pyrogallol is Show Answer


Q38) Which of the following is an excellent antiseptic? Show Answer


Q39) Which of the following alcohols has minimum reactivity with sodium metal? Show Answer


Q40) Which of the following gives anisole? Show Answer


Q41) Widespread deaths due to liquor poisoning are because of the Show Answer


Q42) Methanol is manufactured by passing compressed water gas with excess of hydrogen over Show Answer


Q43) Which of the following groups increases the acidity of phenol? Show Answer


Q44) Which of the following is more acidic than phenol? Show Answer


Q45) Oxygen atom of ethers is Show Answer


Q46) Intramolecualr hydrogen bonding is found in Show Answer


Q47) Which of the following is most acidic? Show Answer


Q48) What is formed when primary alcohol undergoes catalytic dehydrogenation? Show Answer


Q49) An unknown compound dissolves in sulphuric acid but does not decolourise bromine water and does not react with sodium. Which of the following classes of molecules would behave in this manner? Show Answer


Q50) Denatured alcohol is Show Answer


Q51) Which of the following is used as an antifreeze? Show Answer


Q52) Phenol is converted into salicyladehyde by Show Answer


Q53) Ethanol and dimethyl ether are a pair of functional isomers. The boiling point of ethanol is higher than that of dimethyl ether due to the presence of Show Answer


Q54) Denatured spirit is mainly used as a Show Answer


Q55) Chlorobenzene can be converted to phenol by heating it with caustic soda under pressure. This is known as
Show Answer


Q56) Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols can be distinguished by
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Q57) A suitable reagent to distinguish ethyl alcohol from n - propyl alcohol is
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Q58) Phenol is most easily soluble in Show Answer


Q59) Phenol is less acidic than Show Answer


Q60) The increasing order of acidity among phenol
p - Methyl phenol, m - nitrophenol and p - nitrophenol is:
Show Answer


Q61) Which of the following reagent will convert propionic acid to 1 - propanol? Show Answer


Q62) Action of nitrous acid on ethyl amine gives Show Answer


Q63) Which of the following is most acidic? Show Answer


Q64) Which of the following compounds has highest boiling point? Show Answer


Q65) Diethyl ether can be decomposed by heating with Show Answer


Q66) Lucas reagent is: Show Answer


Q67) Which of the following is most acidic? Show Answer


Q68) Methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol can be distinguished by Show Answer


Q69) Primary alcohols are obtained by the action of Grignard reagent with Show Answer


Q70) Alkyl halides can be prepared from alcohols by treatment with the following reagents except Show Answer


Q71) Phenol can be distinguished from alcohols with Show Answer


Q72) Which of the following alcohols is least soluble in water? Show Answer


Q73) Which of the following is most acidic? Show Answer


Q74) Which of the following is soluble in water? Show Answer


Q75) The compound which gives the most stable carbonium ion on dehydration is: Show Answer


Q76) Glycerol on warming with a small amount of HI gets converted to Show Answer


Q77) Fenton's reagent is: Show Answer


Q78) Saponification means hydrolysis of an ester with Show Answer


Q79) Ethyl alcohol is industrially prepared from ethylene by Show Answer


Q80) The compound known as oil of winter green is: Show Answer


Q81) Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols cannot be distinguished by the action of Show Answer


Q82) On oxidation, an alcohol gives an aldehyde having the same number of carbon atoms as that of alcohol. The alcohol is: Show Answer


Q83) Ethoxyethane does not react with Show Answer


Q84) Para - bromophenol can be prepared by treating phenol with Show Answer


Q85) Which of the following isomers of butanol has a chiral structure? Show Answer


Q86) Which of the following does not react with metallic sodium? Show Answer


Q87) Rectified spirit is: Show Answer


Q88) Iodoform is formed when ethanol is heated with Show Answer


Q89) Which of the following reagents will convert glycerol to acrolein? Show Answer


Q90) Which of the following does not react with metallic sodium? Show Answer


Q91) Acetyl chloride does not react with Show Answer


Q92) Glycerol is a by product of which industry? Show Answer


Q93) 1 - Phenyl ethanol can be prepared by reaction of benzaldehyde with: Show Answer


Q94) Which of the following carboxylic acids undergoes decarboxylation easily? Show Answer


Q95) Which of the following will give phenol with CaO and NaOH? Show Answer


Q96) Allyl alcohol is obtained when glycerol reacts with the following at 535 K: Show Answer


Q97) Among the following compounds, the strongest acid is Show Answer


Q98) Which of the following has highest boiling point? Show Answer


Q99) Which of the following is the correct order of increasing boiling points of the following:
I : Pentan - 1- ol II : n - Butane III: Pentanal IV : Ethoxy ethane Show Answer


Q100) The correct order of increasing acid strength of the following compounds
I: 4 - Methylphenol II: 3 - Nitrophenol III : 2, 4 , 6 - Methylphenol IV: Propan - 1 - ol is Show Answer


Q101) Cumene on oxidation in the presence of air followed by treatment with dil acid gives Show Answer


Q102) 1 - propanol and 2 - propanol can be best distinguished by Show Answer


Q103) The best reagent to convert pent - 2- en - 2 - ol into pent - 3 - en - 2 - one is: Show Answer


Q104) A fruity smell is obtained by the reaction of ethanol with: Show Answer


Q105) Which of the following will exhibit highest boiling point? Show Answer


Q106) Which is most viscous? Show Answer


Q107) Which of the following alcohol is used as a beverage? Show Answer


Q108) The wrong statement about glycerol is Show Answer


Q109) Picric acid is: Show Answer


Q110) n - Propyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol can be chemically distinguished by which reagent? Show Answer


Q111) Absolute alcohol is prepared by Show Answer


Q112) Which of the following order of acid strength is correct? Show Answer


Q113) The most reactive nucleophile among the following is: Show Answer


Q114) Propan - 1 - ol can be prepared from propene by Show Answer


Q115) Intermolecular hydrogen bonding is present in Show Answer


Q116) Which test is done to identify primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols? Show Answer


Q117) Among the following the one which reacts most readily with ethanol is Show Answer


Q118) The - OH group of alcohols or the - COOH group of a carboxylic acid can be replaced by - Cl using Show Answer


Q119) Which of the following will not form a yellow precipitate on heating with an alkaline solution of iodine? Show Answer


Q120) Wood spirit is known as Show Answer


Q121) The boiling point of methanol is greater than that of methylthiol because Show Answer


Q122) The only alcohol that can be prepared by the indirect hydration of alkene is: Show Answer


Q123) Salicylic acid is prepared from phenol by Show Answer


Q124) Ethylene oxide when treated with Grignard reagent yields: Show Answer


Q125) Glycerol on oxidation with bismuth nitrate produces Show Answer


Q126) Isopropyl benzene on air oxidation in the presence of dilute acid gives Show Answer


Q127) Acylation of phenols with aromatic acyl chloride in the presence of NaOH is known as Show Answer


Q128) Given are cyclohexanol (I), acetic acid (II), 2, 4, 6 - trinitrophenol (III) and phenol (IV), In these the order of decreasing acidic character will be Show Answer


Q129) Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols can be distinguished by Show Answer


Q130) Ethanol and dimethyl ether are a pair of functional isomers. The boiling point of ethanol is higher than that of dimethyl ether due to the presence of Show Answer


Q131) 1 - propanol and 2 - propanol can be best distinguished by Show Answer


Q132) Which of the following will give phenol with Cao and NaOH? Show Answer


Q133) Which of the following isomers of butanol has a chiral structure? Show Answer


Q134) Phenol is more acidic than ethyl alcohol because Show Answer


Q135) Which of the following reagent will convert propionic acid to 1 - propanol? Show Answer


Q136) Consider the following alcohols:
(1) 1 - Phenyl - 1- propanol
(2) 3 - Phenyl - 1- propanol
(3) 1 - Phenyl - 2- propanol.
The correct sequence of increasing order of reactivity of these alcohols in their reaction with HBr is Show Answer


Q137) Alcoholic beverages are made of Show Answer


Q138) Benzyl alcohol is obtained from PhCHO by Show Answer


Q139) The relative order of basicity of conjugated bases is Show Answer


Q140) Which of the following reacts fastest with Lucas reagent? Show Answer


Q141) Salol is Show Answer


Q142) The common compound used as antifreeze in automobile radiators is: Show Answer


Q143) Which of the following is Dow's reaction? Show Answer


Q144) Which of the following is most easily dehydrated? Show Answer


Q145) The structural formula of 2 - ethylprop - 2 - en - 1 - ol is Show Answer


Q146) Carbolic acid is : Show Answer


Q147) Which of the following methods does not give phenol? Show Answer


Q148) Which of the following is strongest acid? Show Answer


Q149) Vinyl carbinol is Show Answer


Q150) An example of benzylic alcohol is : Show Answer


Q151) The most reactive alcohol towards halogen halides is: Show Answer


Q152) Nitroglycerine is an explosive substance. Its formula is: Show Answer


Q153) Which of the following intermediate is formed in the acid catalysed dehydration of n- propyl alcohol? Show Answer


Q154) Which of the following will not be soluble in sodium carbonate solution? Show Answer


Q155) The most unlikely representation of resonance structures of p - nitrophenoxide ion is: Show Answer


Q156) When iso - butyl magnesium bromide in dry ether is treated with absolute ethyl alcohol, the products formed are Show Answer


Q157) Which of the following gives most stable carbocation on dehydration? Show Answer


Q158) Among the following compounds which can be dehydrated very easily is Show Answer


Q159) p - cresol reacts with chloroform in alkaline medium to give the compound X which adds hydrogen cyanide to form the compound Y. The latter on acidic hydrolysis gives chiral carboxylic acid. The structure of carboxylic acid is Show Answer


Q160) The structure of the compound that gives a tribromo derivative on treatment with bromine water is Show Answer


Q161) Propan - 1 - ol - can be prepared by reaction of propene with Show Answer


Q162) Schotten Baumann reaction is: Show Answer


Q163) Which one of the following compound is most acidic? Show Answer


Q164) Which one of the following compounds has the most acidic nature? Show Answer