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Chemistry · Topic 23

Alcohols and phenols

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Systematic name of a saturated tertiary alcohol isomer resistant to dichromate oxidation

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Oxidation pathways and resistance of primary versus secondary alcohols (true/false)

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Riddle: isopropanol

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Sub-topic 4 2024 · National Preliminary Premium

Systematic name

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Sub-topic 5 2013 · National Preliminary Premium

Counting positional isomers of a straight-chain alkanol

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Sub-topic 6 2013 · National Preliminary Premium

True or false: isomerism, optical activity and oxidation resistance of 2-methyl-2-propanol

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Sub-topic 7 2013 · National Preliminary Premium

Chemical property difference between alkanol oh and phenolic oh

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Sub-topic 8 2013 · National Quarterfinal Premium

Naming and identifying the reactivity of the four structural isomers of butanol

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Sub-topic 9 2013 · National Semifinal Premium

True or false: alcohols as reducing agents (and not oxidizing agents)

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Sub-topic 10 2014 · National Quarterfinal Premium

Organic compound classes with an -oh group, and a butanol isomer

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Sub-topic 11 2021 · National Quarterfinal Premium

Phenol's acidity from inductive electron-withdrawal and resonance-stabilized phenoxide

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Sub-topic 12 2021 · National Semifinal Premium

Phenol is more acidic than ethanol due to resonance-stabilization of the phenoxide ion

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Sub-topic 13 2022 · National Preliminary Premium

Riddle: butanol, a four-carbon alcohol with an optically active isomer

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Sub-topic 14 2023 · National Preliminary Premium

True or false: alcohol water-solubility and oxidation to ketones

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Sub-topic 15 2023 · National Preliminary Premium

Dehydration converts an alcohol to an alkene

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Sub-topic 16 2023 · National Preliminary Premium

True or false: roh represents only a primary alcohol

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