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Q. Which alcohol gives blue colour in Victor Meyer's test?

Rajasthan PETRajasthan PET 2004

Solution:

Secondary butyl alcohol gives blue colour in Victor Meyer's test.
$ Blue\text{ }colour\xleftarrow[{}]{NaOH}{{C}_{2}}{{H}_{5}}-\underset{\begin{smallmatrix} | \\ C{{H}_{3}} \end{smallmatrix}}{\overset{\begin{smallmatrix} N=O \\ | \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{C}}}\,-N{{O}_{2}} $

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