10 Organic chemistry Flashcards
What are the products of complete combustion of alkanes?
What are the products of incomplete combustion of alkenes?
Complete combustion:
CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2O
Incomplete combustion:
CH4 + 1.5O2 -> CO + 2H2O
Draw the mechanism off
Methane + Cl2
Cl-Cl -> Cl• + •Cl
Propagation
Cl• + H - CH3 -> Cl - H + •CH3
•CH3 + Cl - Cl -> CH3 - Cl + Cl•
Termination
Cl• + •Cl -> Cl - Cl
Cl• + •Cl -> CH3 - Cl
CH3• + CH3• -> CH3 - CH3
What happens if Hydrogen is added to a alkene?
The double bond is easily broken under high temperature because only the first bond formed between atoms is a sigma bond which is the easiest to break.
Adding HX to alkene X = (Cl, F, Br, I)
The addition of hydrogen halides is one of the easiest electrophilic addition reactions because it uses the simplest electrophile: the proton. Hydrogen halides provide both a electrophile (proton) and a nucleophile (halide).
These halides are (HBr, HCl, HI, HF), these can participate in this reaction and add on in the same manner. Although different halides do have different rates of reaction, due to the H-X bond getting weaker as X gets larger (poor overlap of orbitals)s.
Addition of halogen to alkene
Adding water to alkene
What is polemerization?
Polymerization is the adding of alkenes to make long polymer
molecules. Here ethene makes the plastic polyethene.
Name and describe the making of long polymer molecules.
Polymerization
This is done by breaking the double bond and using it to connect the molecules.
In this example ethene is used to make the plastics polyethene.
What is electrophilic substitution?
Electrophilic substitution reactions are chemical reactions in which an electrophiledisplaces a functional group in a compound, which is typically, but not always, a hydrogen atom.
What is a electrophile?
An electrophile is an electron pair acceptor.
How many carbons and hydrogens does methane have?
CH4
How many carbons and hydrogens does ethane have?
C2H6
How many carbons and hydrogens does propane have?
C3H8
How many carbons and hydrogens does butane have?
C4H10
How many carbons and hydrogens does pentane have?
C5H12
How many carbons and hydrogens does hexane have?
C6H14
How many carbons and hydrogens does heptane have?
C7H16
How many carbons and hydrogens does octane have?
C8H18
How many carbons and hydrogens does nonane have?
C9H20
Draw the structure of a simple alkene.
e.g.
(ethene)
Ethene
Give the general formula of an alkene and its suffix.
Suffix:
-ene
General formula for an alkene: