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Identification of an organic unknown (Skill P) Introduction I am supplied with an unknown organic compound containing one of the following functional groups: * Alcohol * Aldehyde * Ketone * Carboxylic Acid * Ester * Phenol Organic compounds have different functional groups and therefore differ from each other. They also react differently, I will use this method to determine the type of organic compound I have. I will conduct various experiments to narrow down the choices. After gathering the relevant information I will produce a flow chart. Plan There are many different chemical tests, which enable us to identify an unknown compound. The only thing known about the compound is that it contains one of the following functional groups: alcohol, aldehyde, ketone, carboxylic acid, phenol or ester. I devised a sequence of tests that would identify which of the groups the sample contains. Initially I worked out what tests there are for each functional group, and...

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