Studied by 1 personHow can you form an alcohol?
Reduction of aldehyde or ketone, or by substitution of a halogenoalkane
halogenoalkane to alcohol
Refluxing together halogenoalkane and aqueous alkaline solution.
Mechanism for halogenoalkane to alcohol
Nucleophilic Substitution
NaBH4
Used to reduce aldehydes and ketones to primary and secondary alcohols.
LiAlH4
Used to reduce a carboxylic acid to an alcohol.
Alcohol + HCl =
Chloroalkane
Alcohol + HBr =
Bromoalkane
Alcohol + Carboxylic Acid →
Ester + H2O
Phenol + HNO3 →
2-NitroPhenol
Phenol + Br2 →
Tribromophenol
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