Tollens Reagent Silver Mirror Test for Aldehydes

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The Tollens Test for Aldehydes, also known as the Silver Mirror Test, is a great way to confirm if an unknown carbonyl is an aldehyde or not. This occurs by reacting the unknown carbonyl with Silver +1 which gets reduced to metallic silver (Ag 0) when the aldehyde is oxidized to a carboxylic acid.
This video walks you through the reaction, complete test as well as the step by step radical mechanism.
In this video:
[0:16] Mechanism for silver mirror test
[3:52] Products of the Tollen’s test
[4:44] Tollen’s test using Carboxylic acid molecule
[9:16] Neutralization of Acids in Basic solutions

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