Both unsaturated and aromatic compounds burn with sooty flame .Ethanol is both unsaturated and aromatic.Then how does it burn?(with smoke,sooty etc.)

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Ethanol is neither unsaturated nor aromatic. Aromatic compounds have a cyclic structure but ethanol is not cyclic. Ethanol flames are smokeless and are of red colour.

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