Chemical test to distinguish between phenol and methanol?
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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.
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