JEE Main Chemistry question

Glycol is prepared industrially by which of the following reactions?

(A)Ethylene bromide glycol
(B)Ethylene glycol
(C)Ethylene ethylene oxide glycolCorrect
(D)None of the above

Answer: (C)

Solution

The large-scale industrial route to ethylene glycol is catalytic air/oxygen oxidation of ethylene over a silver catalyst to give ethylene oxide, followed by controlled

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