What does Ceric Ammonium Nitrate test for alcohol?
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Ceric Ammonium Nitrate (CAN). Alcoholsreact with this yellow reagent to produce a color change (from yellow to red), but the carbonyl group is unreactive. This is a good experiment to test for the presence of an alcohol or to prove the absence thereof.
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Explanation:
The chemical formula for Ceric Ammonium Nitrate is ((NH4)2Ce(NO3)6). It is yellow in color.
Alcohols react with Ceric Ammonium Nitrate (yellow reagent) to produce change in color (from yellow to red), but the carbonyl group( C=O) is unreactive. Thus the Ceric Ammonium Nitrate test becomes a very important test to check the presence of alcohol in given compound.
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