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Such materials exhibit unique electrocatalytic properties of electrooxidation to aliphatic alcohols, although analytes with other functional groups have not been studied. This paper reports a study of cyclic voltammetric patterns obtained with bi-atomic gold nanocomposite response to analytes with other functional groups for sensor applications. Principal component analysis shows separation among normal-propanol, iso-propanol and ethyl formate\/ethanol groups. Indirect sensing of ethyl formate is demonstrated by electrooxidation of the product upon hydrolysis in alkaline medium. 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