Question

Chemical difference between ethanol and ethanoic acid

Answer 1

Answer:

ethanol is a alcohol where as ethanoic acid is a carboxylic acid

Answer 2

Answer:

ETHANOL:

Melting point is 156K and boiling point is 351K.

It has sweet odour.

It has -OH ( Alcohol ) As functional group.

It does not reacts with litmus paper.

It does not reacts with Sodium hydrogen carnonate.

ETHANOIC ACID:

It has melting point 290K and boiling point 391 K.

It has pungent Odour.

It has -OOH (Carboxylic acid ) as functional group.

It changes blue litmus paper to red.

It reacts with sodium hydrogen carbonate to release CO2 gas.