Give a chemical test to distinguish between acetophenone and benzophenone
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Benzaldehyde being an aldehyde reduces Tollen's reagent to give a red brown precipitate of Cu2O but acetophenone being a ketone does not. acetophenone being a methyl Keton undergoes oxidation by sodium hupoiodite (NaOl) to give a yellow ppt. iodoform. But Benzaldehyde do not respond.
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