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Part of Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen in JEE Main Chemistry.
- General methods of preparation, properties, reactions and uses of Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
- Alcohols: Identification of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, mechanism of dehydration
- Phenols: Acidic nature, electrophilic substitution reactions, halogenation, nitration and sulphonation, Reimer Tiemann reaction
- Ethers: Structure
- Aldehyde and Ketones: Nature of carbonyl group, nucleophilic addition to >C=O group, relative reactivities of aldehydes and ketones
- Important reactions such as Nucleophilic addition reactions (addition of HCN, NH3 and its derivatives), Grignard reagent, oxidation, reduction (Wolf Kishner and Clemmensen), the acidity of alpha-hydrogen
- Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction, Haloform reaction, chemical tests to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones
- Carboxylic Acids: Acidic strength and factors affecting it
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