Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic acids

(Average Marks:3.33)
For: KCET 2021

1. Which of the following is the strongest 6. Propanoic acid undergoes HVZ reaction to
base? (2020) give chloropropanoic acid. The product
- -
a) CH3COO b) Cl obtained is
c) OH- d) CH3O- a) Stronger acid than propanoic acid
2. (2020) b) As stronger as propanoic acid
c) Weaker acid than propanoic acid
d) Stronger than dichloropropane acid
(2019)
𝐻2 / 𝑃𝑑 −𝐵𝑎𝑆𝑂4 (𝑖)𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐.𝑁𝑎𝑂𝐻
The product ‘P’ is 7. 𝑃 𝑄(𝑖𝑖)𝑑𝑖𝑙.𝐻𝑐𝑙 R+S
R and S from benzyl benzoate when treated
with each other. Hence, P is
(a) C6H5CHO b) C6H5CH2OH
c) C6H5COCl d) C6H5COOH (2019)
8. Which of the following compounds undergo
haloform reaction?
a) CH3COCH3 b) HCHO
+ -
c) CH3CH2𝑁2 X d) C6H5CH2𝑁2+ X-
3. The carbonyl compound that does not (2018)
undergo aldol condensation is (2020) 9. The appropriate reagent for the following
a) Acetone transformation is
b) Di chloro acetaldehyde
c) Tri chloro acetaldehyde
d) Acetaldehyde
4. Which is the most suitable reagent for the
following conversion? a) Zn-Hg/HCl
O b) H2N – NH2, KOH/ethylene glycol
CH3 – CH = CH – CH2 – C – CH3 → c) Ni/H2
O d) NaBH4 (2018)
CH3 – CH = CH – CH2 – C – OH 10. In the following reaction,
a) Tollen’s reagent
b) I2 and NaOH solution
c) Benzoyl peroxide
d) Sn and NaOH solution (2019)
5. The compound Z is
a) Benzoic acid b) benzaldehyde
c) acetophenone d) Benzene (2018)
11. Lower members of aliphatic carboxylic acid
The reagents A, B and C respectively are
are soluble in water. This is due to
a) H2/Pd, PCC, NaBH4
a) Formation of hydrogen bonds with water
b) NaBH4, PCC, H2/Pd
b) London forces
c) NaBH4, alk. KMnO4, H2/Pd
c) Water is non-electrolyte
d) H2/Pd, alk. KMnO4, NaBH4 (2019)
d) Van der-Waal’s interaction with water
 Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic acids
(Average Marks:3.33)
For: KCET 2021

molecules (2017)
12. Reduction of ketones cannot be carried out c) CH3CH(OH)C2H5 d) (CH3)2C(OH)C6H
with which of the following reagents? (2015)
a) Hydrogen in presence of palladium in 17. The formation of cyanohydrin from a ketone
barium is an example of
b) Sodium borohydride or lithium a) nucleophilic addition
aluminium b) electrophilic substitution
c) Zinc amalgam and concentrated HCl c) nucleophilic substitution
d) Hydrazine and KOH in ethylene glycol d) electrophilic addition (2015)
(2017) 18. Iodoform can be prepared from all, except
13. In the following sequence of reactions, a) butan-2-one b) acetophenone
𝐾𝐶𝑁 𝐻3 𝑂 + 𝐿𝑖𝐴𝑙𝐻4 c) propan-2-ol d) propan – 1 – ol
CH3Br → A → B→ C
(2015)
The end product C is
19. Acetic acid is treated with Ca(OH)2 and the
a) Methane b) Ethyl alcohol
product so obtained is subjected to dry
c) Acetone d) Acetaldehyde
distillation. The final product is
(2017)
a) propanol b) ethanol
14. Cannizzaro’s reaction is an example of auto
c) ethanal d) propanone (2015)
oxidation
20. The distinguishing test between methanoic
a) It is a typical reaction of aliphatic
acid and ethanoic acid is
aldehyde.
a) Tollen’s test
b) It is a reaction answered by only
b) Sodium bicarbonate test
aldehydes containing α-hydrogen
c) Litmus test
c) It is a reaction answered only by aromatic
d) Esterification test (2015)
aldehydes.
d) It is a reaction answered by all aldehydes
(2017)
15. Benzene carbaldehyde is reacted with
concentrated NaOH solution to give the
products A and B. The product A can be used
as food preservative and the product B is an
aromatic hydroxyl compound where OH
group is linked to sp3 hybridized carbon atom
next to benzene ring. The products A and B
are respectively,
a) Sodium benzoate and phenol
b) Sodium benzoate and phenyl methanol
c) Sodium benzoate and cresol
d) Sodium benzoate and picric acid (2016)
16. Predict the product ‘C’ in the following series
of reactions:
𝑃𝐶𝑙5 𝐶6 𝐻6 ,𝐴𝑛ℎ𝑦𝑑.𝐴𝑙𝐶𝑙3
CH3 – COOH → A → C
a) O b) CH3CH(OH)C6H5