NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 93
NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 93
Question 93 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids. Its idea, Tollens' and Fehling's Tests, was asked twice, in 2023 and 2024, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q93 · Chemistry
Identify the major product obtained in the following reaction :
2-acetylbenzaldehyde (benzene ring with ortho COCH and CHO groups) + 2[Ag(NH)] + 3OH major product
The figure, described in words
Reactant and options drawn as skeletal structures of ortho-disubstituted benzenes.
- 1[structure: benzene ring with ortho CH(OH)CH3 and COO]
- 2[structure: benzene ring with ortho CH(OH)CH3 and CH2OH]
- 3[structure: benzene ring with ortho COCH3 and CH2OH]
- 4[structure: benzene ring with ortho COCH3 and COO]Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
Tollens' and Fehling's Tests, in other papers
NEET asked this idea twice, in 2023 and 2024. The other question below.
- 2024 Q62Fehling's solution 'A' isOne-line MCQ · Easy
Tollens' and Fehling's Tests: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids in ten years of NEET
27 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.6 a paper. Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids alone had 22.