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Benzophenones nonpolar nature makes it in alcoholic drink-soluble with water supply (which is polar), soluble with methyl alcohol (which is of intermediate polarity) and soluble with hexane (which is nonpolar). This is because generally, like dissolves like nonpolar leave alone dissolve nonpolar merely not polar, and vice versa. But note that this is an imperfect science you would expect hexane to dissolve faster and much(prenominal) completely than methanol (because of the differing polarities), but the opposite occurred.This may be ecause of benzophenones ketone group, which adds a slight polarity to the molecule, make it a little polar, although mostly nonpolar. Biphenyl, which is completely nonpolar, will have similar solubilities as benzophenone insoluble with water (polar), partially soluble with methanol (intermediate polarity) and soluble with hexane (nonpolar). But with biphenyl (unlike with benzophenone) the solubilities are exactly as expected, because of biphenyls complete nonpolarity.But that explains any differences in solubilities between the two molecules. Polarity also played a role in the alcohol reactions water, which is polar, will be insoluble with I-octanol (which is nonpolar), insoluble with I-butanol (also nonpolar), and soluble with methanol (polar). But its a little more complicated the carbon chain of each of these organic compounds will always be nonpolar and because hydrophobic, but as these are alcohols, the -OH group, which is polar and therefore hydrophilic, comes into play as well.So its kind of a participation between the hydrophobic carbon chain and the ydrophilic alcohol group, and when the chain is long, as in octanol, it will humble the alcohol. Conversely, in small alcohols like methanol (or ethanol etc. ), where the carbon chain is much shorter, it will exert a smaller hydrophobic force and the overall molecule will therefore be hydrophilic. The hexane-alcohol reactions had the opposite solubilities, due to he xanes nonpolar nature (and the rule of like dissolves like) soluble with I-octanol (nonpolar), soluble with I-butanol (nonpolar), and insoluble with methanol (pola