With the help of chemical reaction differentiate between alcohol and phenol?
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Alcohol
- alcohol is an organic compound whose molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups attached to a carbon atom
- generally aliphatic hydrocarbons
- aliphatic alcohols are less acidic
- used in the alcoholic beverage pharmaceutical, ink, etc industries
- R-OH, where R is the alkyl group.
- this is a group of compounds. Phenol
- phenol is a compound consisting of a hydroxyl groups bonded directly to an aromatic hydrocarbons group
- aromatic hydrocarbons
- phenols are more acidic
- mainly used as antiseptic agents
- Ph-OH where phone is the phenolic ring
- this is a specific compound
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