Alcohols Flashcards
What is the functional group do an alcohol?
What are alcohols general formula?
How do you name alcohols?
Compare and contrast the melting point and boiling point of alcohols to hydrocarbons with similar carbon chain lengths
Are alcohols soluble in water?
What makes an alcohol ‘primary’?
What makes an alcohol ‘secondary’?
What makes an alcohol ‘tertiary’?
How is alcohol produced industrially ?
How is ethanol produced industrially?
What conditions are needed for the production of ethanol industrially?
How is ethanol which is produced industrially separated?
Define biofuel
Define carbon neutral
What is the equation that’s shows how ethanol produced by fermentation is carbon neutral fuel
State points ‘for’ and ‘against’ the statement of ethanol produced by fermentation being carbon neutral
Describe the mechanism for the formation of alcohol by the reaction of an alkene with steam in the presence of an acid catalyst
List the environmental (including ethical) issues of making biofuel
What is formed if you partially oxidise a primary alcohol?
What conditions are needed to partially oxidise a primary alcohol?
State the equation for the partial oxidation of ethanol
What forms when a primary alcohol is fully oxidised?
What conditions are needed for the complete oxidation of a primary alcohol?
Write an equation for the complete oxidation of primary alcohols
What forms if you oxides a secondary alcohol?
What are the conditions needed for the oxidation of secondary alcohols?
Write an equation for the oxidation of propan-2-ol
What is an aldehyde and state it’s functional group?
How do you name aldehydes?
Give an example
What is a ketone and state it’s functional group?
How do you name ketones?
Give an example
What is a carboxylic acid and state it’s functional group?
How do you name carboxylic acids?
Give an example
Why can tertiary alcohols not be oxidised?
What is the test for aldehydes?
State the positive result
What is the test for ketones?
State the positive result
What is Tollen’s reagent made of and how does that react with substances in order to be tested?
How do you carry out the Tollen’s test?
What is in Fehling’s reagent and how does that react with substances in order to be tested?
What is the result of the Tollen’s test for both aldehydes and ketones?
What conditions do you need to use the Fehling’s solution?
