Chemical Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones

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Chemical Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones: Overview

In this topic, we will study nucleophilic addition reactions, reduction, oxidation, reaction due to α-hydrogen and various other named reactions in detail.

Important Questions on Chemical Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones

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Reduction of the carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones on treatment with hydrazine followed by heating with potassium hydroxide is known as

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Reaction of cyclohexanone with dimethylamine in the presence of catalytic amount of an acid forms a compound if water during the reaction is continuously removed. The compound formed is generally known as –

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A mixture of benzaldehyde and formaldehyde on heating with an aqueous NaOH solution gives.

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The product of the above reaction is:

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Write the structure of carbonyl compound and ammonia derivative that combine to give following imine.

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Write the structure of carbonyl compound and ammonia derivative that combine to give following imine.

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Write the structure of carbonyl compounds and ammonia derivatives that combine to give the following image.

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Glucose on reaction with Fehling solution gives

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Which of the following reaction, will not give a yellow precipitate?

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The order of susceptibility of nucleophilic attack on aldehydes follows the order

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Benzaldehyde can be converted to benzyl alcohol in concentrated aqueous NaOH solution using

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The alcohol that results when acetaldehyde is reacted with CH3MgBr in the presence of dry ether and the product is hydrolysed. 

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Find the number of products obtained by the cross cannizzaro reaction in them.

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Which of the following properties of the carbonyl group allows aldehydes and ketones to undergo nucleophilic addition reactions?

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Which of the following method is used for conversion of the ketone to hydrocarbon? 

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Compounds A and C in the following reaction are _____.
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Which of the following method is used for conversion of ketone to hydrocarbon?

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When ethanal is heated with Fehling's solution, then the precipitate obtained is of: