How can you distinguish between aliphatic aldehyde and aromatic aldehyde?
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They are generally open chain of carbon atoms aliphatic compounds can be cyclic too but they lack aromaticity in the structure where as aromatic compounds get aromaticity by benzene ring so they are termed as aromatic compounds.
tested to give positive results.This is due to Fehling's test being used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones.Tollens test also does this, but in addition can be used to distinguish between aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes.
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Aromatic aldehydes are organic molecules having the –CHO functional group attached to an aromatic group. Aliphatic aldehydes are organic compounds which have no aromatic rings attached to the aldehyde group.
But, aliphatic aldehydes have no resonance stabilization. Therefore, the reactivity is very high.