Chemistry
High School (11–12)
Organic Compounds with Functional Groups › Alcohols, Phenols and EthersChapter 27Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
Wine, rubbing alcohol, the antiseptic smell of a clinic, the aspirin in a cabinet and the solvent in a school laboratory all belong to one family: carbon compounds with an oxygen atom bonded to carbon. In this chapter you learn how alcohols are named and made, why they boil so high, how they and phenols react, and how ethers are made, cleaved and used safely. It serves the Indian syllabus (NCERT, NEET, JEE Main) and the matching topics of A-Level, IB and AP Chemistry. Python counts isomers and works out yields.
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Alcohols: Naming, Preparation and Physical Properties
What makes a compound an alcohol, and how do we name it? You sort alcohols as primary, secondary or tertiary. You make them from alkenes, carbonyl compounds and Grignard reagents. You see why hydrogen bonding sets their boiling point and solubility.
Reactions of Alcohols and Phenols
Why is phenol a stronger acid than ethanol, and what do substituents do to acid strength? Then the reactions of alcohols: substitution, dehydration, esterification and oxidation, and the tests that tell the classes apart. The course ends with phenol, including the Kolbe and Reimer-Tiemann reactions.