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Tollens' test for aldehyde: left side positive (silver mirror), right side negative Ball-and-stick model of the diamminesilver(I) complex. Tollens' reagent (chemical formula ()) is a chemical reagent used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones along with some alpha-hydroxy ketones which can tautomerize into aldehydes.
The structure of the fuchsin dye. The Schiff test is an early organic chemistry named reaction developed by Hugo Schiff, [1] and is a relatively general chemical test for detection of many organic aldehydes that has also found use in the staining of biological tissues. [2]
In this test, an aldehyde is treated with Tollens' reagent, which is prepared by adding a drop of sodium hydroxide solution into silver nitrate solution to give a precipitate of silver(I) oxide, and then adding just enough dilute ammonia solution to redissolve the precipitate in aqueous ammonia to produce [Ag(NH 3) 2] + complex. This reagent ...
Formic acid (HCO 2 H) also gives a positive Fehling's test result, as it does with Tollens' (eponymous for Bernhard Christian Gottfried Tollens (1841 – 1918)) test and Benedict's solution also. The positive tests are consistent with it being readily oxidizable to carbon dioxide. The solution cannot differentiate between benzaldehyde and acetone.
A positive test is signalled by the formation of a yellow, orange or red precipitate of the dinitrophenylhydrazone. Aromatic carbonyls give red precipitates whereas aliphatic carbonyls give more yellow color. [2] The reaction between DNPH and a generic ketone to form a hydrazone is shown below:
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