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    This document provides explanations for 10 multiple choice questions about alcohols, phenols, and ethers from a Class 12 Chemistry chapter. The questions cover topics like oxidizing alcohols to form carboxylic acids or ketones, the reaction of phenol with bromine water, identifying primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols using the Lucas test, and distinguishing properties of different alcohol and ether types.

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    Class 12 Chemistry Chapter 11 Alcohols, Phenols, and

    Ethers MCQs
    1. To get carboxylic acids directly from alcohol, which of the following oxidising agents is used?

    a) Alkaline KMnO 4

    b) Aqueous KMnO 4

    c) Acidified KMnO 4

    d) Anhydrous CrO 3

    Answer: c

    Explanation: Strong oxidizers, such as acidified potassium permanganate or acidified potassium


    dichromate, convert alcohol to carboxylic acid immediately. Using CrO3 as the oxidising agent in an
    anhydrous media, however, only aldehyde can be produced.

    2. When phenol reacts with bromine water, what is the result?

    a) Brown liquid

    b) Colourless gas

    c) White precipitate

    d) No reaction

    Answer: c

    Explanation: When phenol is treated with bromine water, a white precipitate is formed, which is
    2,4,6-Tribromophenol.

    3. The Lucas test was carried out on three different compounds: A, B, and C. Compounds A and B
    were turbid at ambient temperature, while compound C did not become turbid until it was heated.
    Which one of the compounds is tertiary in structure?

    a) A

    b) Cannot be determined
    c) C

    d) A and B

    Answer: b

    Explanation: It is stated that A and B exhibit turbidity at room temperature, however it is not stated
    whether the turbidity appears immediately or over a period of time. So compounds A and B may be
    tertiary or secondary depending on whether turbidity appears immediately or after 5 minutes
    respectively. Compound C may be primary.

    4. Which of the following compounds is formed when secondary alcohols are oxidised by [O]?

    a) Ether

    b) Aldehyde

    c) Ketone

    d) Amine

    Answer: c

    Explanation: The oxidation of secondary alcohols by a nascent oxygen atom [O] yields the ketone
    molecule.

    5. Which of the following processes does not result in the production of alcohol?

    a) Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes

    b) Free radical halogenation of alkanes

    c) Reduction of aldehydes

    d) Hydroboration-oxidation of alkenes

    Answer: b

    Explanation: When alkanes are halogenated by free radicals, they form a mixture of haloalkanes
    rather than alcohols. Alcohols can be made from alkenes through acid catalysed hydration and
    hydroboration-oxidation, or from aldehyde reduction.

    6. The conversion of trialkyl borane to an alcohol does not require which of the following?
    a) Sodium hydroxide

    b) Water

    c) Diborane

    d) Hydrogen peroxide

    Answer: c

    Explanation: In the presence of aqueous NaOH, trialkyl boranes are oxidised by hydrogen peroxide to
    produce alcohol. This conversion does not require diborane, although it is required for the creation of
    trialkyl boranes.

    7. Ethers may be used as solvents because they react only with which of the following reactants?

    a) Oxidising agent

    b) Bases

    c) Acids

    d) Reducing agents

    Answer: c

    Explanation: Nucleophiles and bases cannot attack ether. However, because of their capacity to solve
    cations by giving an electron pair from an oxygen atom, they are excellent solvents in many chemical
    reactions. Ethers are less reactive than alcohols and react only with acids.

    8. An aryl carbon can be found in which of the following compounds?

    a) Ethanol

    b) Phenol

    c) Vinyl alcohol

    d) Benzyl alcohol

    Answer: b

    Explanation: An aryl carbon is the sp 2 hybridised carbon of an aromatic ring to which the hydroxyl
    group is connected. The OH group is connected to an aryl carbon in phenol.
    9. It's called ether when the alkyl groups connected to either side of the oxygen atom in an ether are
    different.

    a) mixed

    b) symmetrical

    c) simple

    d) diethyl

    Answer: a

    Explanation: A mixed or unsymmetrical ether is one in which the alkyl or aryl groups on either side of
    the O atom differ.

    10. Which of the following alcohols is not polyhydric?

    a) Propylene glycol

    b) Ethylene glycol

    c) Cyclohexanol

    d) Benzene-1,2-diol

    Answer: c

    Explanation: Polyhydric alcohols include two or more hydroxyl groups and are classified as glycols in
    the common system or diols and triols in the IUPAC system.

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