how will you distinguised butanal and butanone?
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Butanal is aldehyde while Butan−2−one is ketone. Aldehyde reduces tollen's reagent ammonical AgNO
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to Ag which forms a black or a silver precipitate while ketone doesn't give tollen's test.
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(a) Tollen's reagent test: Add ammoniacal solution of silver nitrate(Tollen's Reagent) in both the solutions. Butanal gives silver mirror whereas Butan-2-one does not.
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