MHT CET Chemistry question

ChemistryOrganic Oxidation & Reduction ReactionsMHT CET

Tertiary alcohol are resistant to oxidation

Answer: (B)

Solution

Oxidation requires removal of an H atom from the carbinol carbon, and a tertiary alcohol has no such hydrogen, so it resists

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