Give a chemical test to distinguish between phenol and ethanol?
Give a chemical test to distinguish between phenol and ethanol.please help me?
PHENOL is an aromatic compound and it contains an activatedbenzene nucleus. so i
t will respond to diazo coupling reaction.(for the description of the test see O RGANIC chemistry by I.L.FINAR).Butethanol being an aliphatic compound doesnot re spond to this test. also ethanol gives a sweet smelling yellow precipitate of iodoform when treated with I2+NaOH.Phenol doesnot givethis test. When phenol is treated with KBrO3-KBr mixture in presenceof acid a precipitate of 2,4,6-tribromo phenol is formed but nosuch precipitate with ethanol.