CUET · CHEMISTRY · PYQ PAPER 2025
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Carbonyl compounds such as aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids play an important role in the biochemical process of plants and animal kingdom. Many aldehydes and ketones find applications in dye, perfumery and other industries.
The carbonyl carbon atom is \(s p^2\)-hybridized forming three sigma and one pi-bond with oxygen.
C-O bonds are polar bond due to high electronegativity of oxygen than carbon.
Hence the carbonyl carbon behaves as an electrophilic center and oxygen as a nucleophilic centre.
Primary and secondary alcohols yield aldehydes and ketones respectively upon oxidation with variety of oxidixing agents.
The boiling points of aldehydes and ketones differ from hydrocarbons and ethers.
Aldehydes and ketones undergo nucleophilic addition reaction due to presence of electrophilic carbonyl carbon.
Nucleophile and a proton add across the carbon oxygen double bond.
In polar C-O bond in carbonyl compounds, the nature of carbon and oxygen atom is
- A The carbon atom acts as a Lewis acid and the oxygen atom acts as Lewis base.
- B Both carbon and oxygen atoms act as Lewis acid
- C Both carbon and oxygen atoms act as Lewis base
- D The carbon atom acts as an Lewis base and the oxygen atom acts as a Lewis acid
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(A) The carbon atom acts as a Lewis acid and the oxygen atom acts as Lewis base.
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The carbon atom acts as a Lewis acid and the oxygen atom acts as Lewis base.
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