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Suggest a reason for the large difference in the boiling points of butanol and butanal, although they have same solubility in water. 

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The b. pt. of butanol is higher than that of butanal because butanol has strong intermolecular H-bonding while butanal has weak dipole-dipole interaction. However both of them form H-bonds with water and hence are soluble 



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