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Question
Give reasons to support the answer:
3-Hydroxy pentan-2-one shows positive Tollen’s test.
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Solution
Tollen’s reagent is a weak oxidizing agent not capable of breaking the C – C bond in ketones. Thus ketones cannot be oxidized using Tollen’s reagent itself gets reduced to Ag.
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