Question

Chemical test between phenol & alcohol

Answer 1

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Phenol is an unsaturated aromatic alcohol, while ethanol is saturated aliphatic alcohol. Ethanol reacts with triiodomethane (iodoform test) and forms yellow precipitate, while phenol does not give this test. Phenol has benzene ring it under goes diazo coupling reaction, while ethanol doest give this test.

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Answer 2

Phenol will turn litmus paper red and alcohol will turn it between red to blue (for neutral). ... Alcohol is too weakly acidic to even form the alkoxide or the complex. Again, it's the phenoxide presence that makes phenol more reactive with diazonium salt. The test with NaOH is just a normal acid-base reaction.