B.Sc. Second year Undergraduate degree course Semester Third Organic Chemistry paper VII
Chapter – Alcohol
Multiple Choice questions
1. What will be the product for when glycerol
is heated with hydriodic acid?
a) Glycerol carbonate
b) Epichlorohydrine
c) Ethylene glycol
d) Isopropyl iodide
2. What will be product of the reaction if lead
tetraacetate and glycerol will react?
a) Glycerol carbonate
b) Ethylene glycol
c) Formic acid
d) Formaldehyde and formic acid
3. What will happen when glycerol is added into
bromine water and sodium carbonate?
a) Glycerol carbonate
b) Dihydroxyacetone
c) Ethylene glycol
d) Isopropyl iodide
4. What will happen when glycerol is added into
acid?
a) Esterification
b) Alcoholysis
c) Transesterification
d) No reaction will occur
5. What happens when glycol reacts with lead
tetraacetate?
a) No reaction
b) Ketones will be formed
c) Aldehyde will not be formed
d) Monohydric alcohols will be formed
6. What is the intermediate form in the
mechanism of the lead acetate and glycol?
a) Three membered cyclic ring
b) Four membered cyclic ring
c) Five membered cyclic ring
d) Six membered cyclic ring
7. What is the name of the reaction when lead
tetraacetate is used cleave a carbon-carbon bond in a glycol?
a) Criegee oxidation
b) Swern oxidation
c) Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
d) Jones oxidation
8. What happens when glycol reacts with
periodic acid?
a) No reaction
b) Ketones will be formed
c) Aldehyde will not be formed
d) Monohydric alcohols will be formed
9. Which of the following is the industrial
method of formation of glycol?
a) Hydroxylation of alkene by Bayer’s reagent
b) From 1,2-dibromoethane
c) Oxidation of ethylene and using Ag as catalyst
d) Ethylene treatment with HOCl
10. Which type of product is formed when Cold
dilute alkaline solution of Bayer’s reagent reacts with alkene?
a) Syn-glycol
b) Syn- and anti-geometry will not be there in
glycol
c) Anti-glyol
d) Trans glycol
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Alcohol MCQ-1
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Aldehydes and Ketones MCQ-1
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