Chemistry, asked by Snigdha7385, 1 year ago

Why aldehydes and ketones have lower boiling points than alcohols

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Answered by hira62
3
Ciao,
alcohols contain -oH group unlike corbonyls thus they form hydrogen bonding in them so they have more boiling point than aldehydes and ketones .
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Answered by MajorLazer017
5

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Both alcohols and acids involve intermolecular hydrogen bonding. But no intermolecular H - bonding occur in aldehydes and ketones.

Therefore, attractive forces in aldehydes and ketones are lesser/weaker than acids and alcohols. Hence, lesser energy is required to break the attractive forces in aldehydes and ketones and thus they have low boiling points(low boiling point = less energy to break the attractive forces).

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