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TOLLENS REAGENT
Product Code: RXSOL-60-6605-742

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Tollens' reagent (chemical formula. ) is a chemical reagent used to distinguish between aldehydes and 
ketone functional groups along with some alpha-hydroxy ketones which can tautomerize into aldehydes.

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TOLLENS REAGENT

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Tollens' reagent is an alkaline solution of ammoniacal silver nitrate and is used to test for aldehydes. Silver ions in the presence of hydroxide ions come out of solution as a brown precipitate of silver(I) oxide, Ag2O(s). This precipitate dissolves in aqueous ammonia,

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reagent consists of a solution of silver nitrate, ammonia and some sodium hydroxide (to maintain a basic pH of the reagent solution). It was named after its discoverer, the German chemist Bernhard Tollens.

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