Identify the test from following so that aldehyde when boiled with ammoniacal silver nitrate solution…

Identify the test from following so that aldehyde when boiled with ammoniacal silver nitrate solution deposts silver.
  1. Schiff's test
  2. Tollen's test
  3. Gehling test
  4. Iodoform test

Solution

Tollen's reagent oxidises aldehyde to the corresponding carboxylate anion. Silver gets precipitated as greyish black precipitate.

Asked in: MHT CET 2024 (09 May Shift 1)

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