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what are the disadvantages of using PCl5 to detect presence of an alcohol/the hydroxyl group in an organic compound?
Original post by Alex kurien
what are the disadvantages of using PCl5 to detect presence of an alcohol/the hydroxyl group in an organic compound?
It also gives the same result with water, so any water contamination of the organic compound with give a false positive.
Original post by charco
It also gives the same result with water, so any water contamination of the organic compound with give a false positive.
oh ok
thankyou
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