Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Chemistry

Chapter

Organic: Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers

Question:
Which of the following is known as 'wood naphtha'?
Options:
Methanol
Ethanol
1-Propanol
2-Propanol
Correct Answer:
Methanol
Explanation:
Methanol is also known as wood spirit or wood alcohol or wood naphtha as the earliest known method for the preparation of methanol was by the destructive distillation of wood.