Experiment description
This experiment demonstrates the haloform reaction, showing that compounds containing a methyl ketone group or alcohols oxidizable to methyl ketones produce a yellow precipitate of iodoform when treated with iodine and alkali.
Haloform reaction(Iodoform Test)
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