Question

The reagent with which both acetaldehyde and acetone react easily is (a) Fehling’s reagent (b) Grignard reagent(c) Schiff’s reagent (d) Tollen’s reagent

Answer 1

b is the answer.

All other options can easily react with acetaldehyde but not with acetone due to presence of ketone.

Answer 2

Answer:

(b) Grignard reagent

Explanation:

When alkyl or alkenyl halides are treated with magnesium metal it leads to the formation of Grignard reagent. They're incredibly great nucleophiles, responding with electrophiles which contain carbonyl mixes such as aldehyde, ketones, esters, carbon dioxide, and so on and epoxides.

Other reagents given in the option such as Fehling’s reagent, Schiff’s reagent and Tollen’s reagent has positive reaction only with aldehyde alone. Thus the correct answer to the given question is identified as Grignard reagent.