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why benzaldehyde do not respond to fehling's test?

sourabh monga , 15 Years ago
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Vikas V

Benzaldehyde is a mixture of equal volumes of 2 solutions namely, Fehling solution A and Fehling solution B.

Fehling solution A consists of CuSO4 solution

Fehling solution B consists of NaOH+Roschelle's salt..

Benzaldehyde easily reacts with this NaOH in rochelle's salt instead of reacting with CuSO4 .. Hence Benzaldehyde doesnt react with fehling solution..

 

Extra: Rochelle's salt is sodium potassium tartate..

structure:    COONa

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             H--- C --OH

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          OH--- C -- H

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                  COOK

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Last Activity: 15 Years ago
Harita
Aromatic compounds don`t give enols. One of them is benzaldehyde. The reason behind this is it don`t give fehling `s test as it don`t have alpha hydrogen.
Last Activity: 8 Years ago
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