NEET ANSWER KEY & SOLUTIONS

SUBJECT :- CHEMISTRY
CLASS :- 12th PAPER CODE :- CWT-9
CHAPTER :- ALDEHYDE & KETONE ,CARBOXYLIC ACID
ANSWER KEY
1. (C) 2. (C) 3. (B) 4. (C) 5. (B) 6. (A) 7. (C)
8. (C) 9. (C) 10. (C) 11. (A) 12. (D) 13. (A) 14. (B)
15. (C) 16. (D) 17. (A) 18. (A) 19. (A) 20. (C) 21. (D)
22. (D) 23. (A) 24. (D) 25. (B) 26. (C) 27. (B) 28. (C)
29. (C) 30. (C) 31. (C) 32. (A) 33. (A) 34. (A) 35. (A)
36. (A) 37. (A) 38. (C) 39. (A) 40. (C) 41. (D) 42. (D)
43. (D) 44. (C) 45. (A) 46. (B) 47. (C) 48. (B) 49. (C)
50. (C)
SOLUTIONS
8. (C)
SECTION-A
1. (C) Sol. Protonation is the fastest step.
Sol. Aldehydes and ketones have elevated boiling
points due to dipole-dipole attraction. 9. (C)
Sol. This is due to increase in electron
2. (C) releasing or +I effect.
Sol. Aldehydes are easily oxidized to carboxylic
10. (C)
acid but ketones are difficult to oxidise. Most
Sol. CH3–OH + HCOONa are formed.
books say that the hydrogen directly bonded
to the C=O. in the aldehyde is what aids the 11. (A)
Sol. It is known that basic need for the
oxidation process
existance of Keto-enol tautomers is the
presence of at least one hydrogen atom
3. (B) at adjacent sp3 carbon of carbonyl carbon.
Sol. Carbonyl compounds are best purified by
hydrolysis of sodium bisulphite adducts. 12. (D)
O
4. (C) 
 i  O3
Sol.
Sol. CH 3  CH  CH  CH 3  H  /Hg 2
ii  H 2 / Zn  2CH 3  CHO CH3C  CH 
 CH3  C  CH3
2 
Hg H
CH 3  C  CH  
OH O
13. (A)
O
CH3  C  CH 2  CH 3  C  CH 3
Sol. 
C7 H14  O3 
 C3H 6O  CH3  CH 3  C  CH 3
5. (B)

H
Sol. CH 3MgI  CH 3CN  CH 3  CO  CH 3
14. (B)

NaCN H
6. (A)
Sol.  CH3  2 C  O 
HCl
  CH 3 2 C  OH  CN 

Sol. (CH3)2C(OH)CO2H.

15. (C)
Sol. Due to high polarity of C–O bond in
O

HCH

7. (C) 16. (D)

Sol. Aldehydes are more reactive than ketones H2 SO 4 NaOH
Sol. HC  CH 
Hg 2
 HCOCH3  
and +I effect of alkyl groups and steric
factor decreases rate. CH3CH(OH)CH2CHO.
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17. (A) 26. (C)
Sol. This is etard reaction Sol. This is because the grignard reagent
causes changes only in the carbon oxygen
18. (A) bond which is same for both aldehydes
and ketones.
Sol. HCHO + CH3COCH3 
27. (B)
Sol. Benzaldehyde does not give Fehling’s test
19. (A) as it does not have alpha hydrogen.
Sol. C6H5CHO+KOH  C6H5CH2–
OH+C6H5COOK 28. (C)
Cannizzaro reaction Sol. They can be differentiated by iodoform test
as CH3–C=O group is present only in
20. (C) ethanal
Zn / Hg
Sol. (1) R  COR 1 
HCl
 RCH 2R
(b) Clemmensen reduction 29. (C)
(2) = N – NH2 
 
C 2 H5 ONa
H2 + N2 Sol. The other part is KNaC4H4O6 i.e. ‘felhings
b’
(d) Wolf Kishner reducution
OH  CH  COONa
R  C  O + Aluminium isopropoxide
(3)
R OH CH  COOK
Rochelle salt

21. (D) 30. (C)

Sol. (1) C6H5CHO (d) Cannizzaro reaction Sol. (i) Positire iodoform test indicates
(2) CH3COCHO (c) Iodoform reaction presence of CH 3  C  group which
(3) CH3COCH3 (a) Mesitylene 
(4) CH3CHO (b) Paraldehyde O

22. (D) narrows it to acetaldehyde (a) and acetone

(c).
Sol. All of these are intermediates during aldol
(ii) Not reducing felhing’s and tollen’s
condensation. shows it is not an aldehyde but a ketone.
So it is acetone(c).
23. (A) (iii) Acetone gives cyanohydrin with HCN.
CH 3 (This is a confirmation)

Sol. I CH 3  CH  CH  CHO 31. (C)

Sol. Benedicts test
OH
CH 3  CH 2  CH  CH 2  CHO
II
OH

24. (D)
Ba  OH 
Sol. 2CHCOCH3  2
Fehling test
CH3C(OH)(CH3)CH2 COCH3
aldol condensation
+ 2Cu(OH)2 + NaOH
25. (B)
RCOONa + Cu2O + 3H2O

Sol.

32. (A)
Sol. Only aldehydes having alpha or acidic
hydrogen can reduce fehling’s and tollen’s.

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33. (A) 40. (C)
Sol. For more reactivity in nucleophilic addition, Sol. H
CH 3  C  C  N 

 CH 3  C  OH
H2 O

the carbonyl carbon should be more  

electron deficient. Presence of “R” group / O O

+I groups decrease the electron

deficiency. More these groups present, 41. (D)
less is the reactivity. Though Ar group are Sol. CH3-COOH + NaHCO3 
 CH3COONa
–I groups they reduce reactivity due to + CO2 + H2O
steric hindrance. Fehling solution test, tollen reagent are
used to test presence of aldehydic group.
34. (A)
42. (D)
HVZ reaction
Sol. CH -CH -COOH 
Re d  Cl 2

Cl
Sol.

CH 3  CHCOOH

Haloic Acid

43. (D)
35. (A)
Sol.
Sol.

44. (C)
SECTION-B O
36. (A) 
Sol. C6H5CHO + Cl2  C6H5COCl + HCl Sol. NaOH
Schotten-Baumann reaction  HCOO 2 Ca 
H  C  H
Cannizzaro
reaction
(a) 2 HCOONA 
 COONa  H 2 

COONa
(b)

45. (A)
37. (A) Sol.  -Keto acid decarboxylate easily.

Sol. 46. (B)

Sol. Rate of reactivity of acid, when attached
with more electron withdrawing group

38. (C) (R1 is more electron

CH 3 COONa
withdrawing)
Sol. 
 CH3 CO  O  C9 H8 O 2
2  R 2  CH 2OH  while its reactivity decreases
if R1 is electron donating group.

39. (A)

Sol.

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47. (C) 49. (C)

Sol. Sol.

48. (B) 50. (C)

Sol. Rate of reactivity carboxylic acid  as Sol. H2O
CH 3  CH 2  C  N   CH 3  CH 2  COOH
groups attached to  –C are electron
donating. –CH3 is electron donating via +I
effect. Order of reactivity of esterification
of given carboxylic acid with ethanol is
HCOOH > CH3–COOH >
CH 3 CH 3

CH 3  C  COOH  CH3  C  COOH

H CH 3