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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.

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