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The reagent used for the conversion of decanol into decanoic acid is
Answer: B
The reagent is Jones reagent.
Jones reagent, chromium trioxide in aqueous sulphuric acid with acetone, is a strong oxidant that takes a primary alcohol such as decan-1-ol all the way to the carboxylic acid, decanoic acid.
Tollens' and Fehling's reagents oxidise aldehydes, not alcohols. A Grignard reagent is a nucleophile used to make new carbon-carbon bonds, and DIBAL-H is a reducing agent, the opposite of what is needed.
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