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NEET UG CHEMISTRY MCQ: ALCOHOLS & PHENOLS & ETHERS
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Assertion: Tertiary alcohols gets converted into an alkene instead of a carbonyl Compounds in the presence of heated metallic copper.
Reason: Tertiary alcohols prefer to undergo dehydrogenation instead of dehydration in the presence of heated copper.
Reason: Tertiary alcohols prefer to undergo dehydrogenation instead of dehydration in the presence of heated copper.
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Correct option: C
Assertion is correct, but reason is wrong statement.
Option C is correct because tertiary alcohols undergo dehydration to form alkenes in the presence of heated copper, not dehydrogenation to form carbonyl compounds.
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