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Which all carbonyl compounds will respond to Fehling`s reagent and which all to tollens reagent

Which all carbonyl compounds will respond to Fehling`s reagent and which all to tollens reagent

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Vaibhav sethia
26 Points
7 years ago
Tollen and fehling are example of very mild oxidizing agents they can only oxidize aldehydes because aldheyde grp is easiest to oxidize comparative to other carbonyl containing compounds
Priyanshi
19 Points
7 years ago
Tollens and Fehling`s reagent oxidise aldehydes to carboxylate ions.Formic acid (HCOOH) also gives tollens and Fehling`s test. Benzaldehyde doesn`t give Fehling`s test.

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