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Organic functional-group tests template
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Acidified dichromate, Tollens' and Fehling's tubes warming in a hot water bath on a hotplate, and bromine water tubes in a rack (results shown). A-level / AP / IB / CBSE.
What the template shows
- Tell alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and alkenes apart
- Orange to green: primary or secondary alcohol, or aldehyde. Tertiary alcohols and ketones stay orange
- Tollens' reagent
- Freshly made [Ag(NH₃)₂]⁺: aldehydes give a silver mirror. Wash out straight after with dilute HNO₃
- Hot water bath
- About 60 °C; no flames near the flammable organics
- Fehling's or Benedict's
- Blue solution gives a brick-red Cu₂O precipitate with aliphatic aldehydes, not ketones
- Bromine water
- Shake at room temperature: alkanes leave it orange (left), alkenes decolourise it (right)
- Reaction setup
Drawn with 15 shapes – every one editable in MolDraw.
Sources
How to use this template
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Frequently asked questions
Is the Organic functional-group tests template free?
You can preview the Organic functional-group tests template here and open and edit it in MolDraw for free. Downloading or exporting it is part of MolDraw Pro, together with the other premium templates.
Can I edit the Organic functional-group tests template?
Yes. It opens as an ordinary MolDraw drawing, so every structure, arrow, label and colour can be changed, and you can add your own content around it.
Is the chemistry checked?
Every structure is checked with RDKit and every curly arrow passes MolDraw’s electron-flow audit. The sources used are listed on this page.
Can I edit the glassware?
Yes. Every piece of glassware is a MolDraw apparatus object: move, resize, recolour the liquid or swap a piece and the joints stay connected.