explain victor meyer's test for primary alcohol?
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Viktor Meyer (8 September 1848 – 8 August 1897) was a German chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. He is sometimes referred to as Victor Meyer, a name used in some of his publications.
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The alcohol is treated with iodine in presence of red phosphorous to obtain iodol alkane.
Iodoalkane so formed is allow to react with alcoholic silver nitrate in order to obtained nitroalkane.
The nitroalkane is treated with nitrous acid ( the mixture of Nano2 +HCl) and the resulting solution is made alkaline.
the colour of resulting solution is observed in which following observations are observed.
a. A primary alcohol gives blood red colour.
b. A secondary alcohol gives the blue colour.
c. A tertiary alcohol does not produce any colour.
Iodoalkane so formed is allow to react with alcoholic silver nitrate in order to obtained nitroalkane.
The nitroalkane is treated with nitrous acid ( the mixture of Nano2 +HCl) and the resulting solution is made alkaline.
the colour of resulting solution is observed in which following observations are observed.
a. A primary alcohol gives blood red colour.
b. A secondary alcohol gives the blue colour.
c. A tertiary alcohol does not produce any colour.
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