MHT CET Chemistry question

ChemistryOrganic Oxidation & Reduction ReactionsMHT CET

Which of the following alcohols is difficult to oxidise?

Answer: (D)

Solution

A tertiary alcohol has no hydrogen on the carbinol carbon and so resists oxidation under mild conditions (it breaks only under drastic conditions

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