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C14 - Organic Chemistry Flashcards

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1
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Name three fossil fuels [3]

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Coal / natural gas / petroleum (crude oil)

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What is the main constituent of natural gas? [1]

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Methane

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Describe petroleum [1]

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A mixture of hydrocarbons called fractions

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Describe what is similar about the molecules within a fraction [2]

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They will be of similar size / they will have similar boiling points

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What is the process used to separate the fractions within petroleum and why can the fractions be separated in this way? [2]

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Fractional distillation / separates hydrocarbon fractions based on their boiling point

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Describe the process of fractional distillation [3]

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Petroleum is vaporised / fractionating column is hot at the bottom and cooler at the top / as hydrocarbon vapours rise up the column they condense at different boiling points

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Describe the fractions that vapourise at the top fo the column [4]

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Smaller / lower boiling point / more volatile / less viscous

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What is a use of refinery gas? [1]

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Bottled gas for heating and cooking

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What is a use of the gasoline fraction? [1]

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Fuel (petrol) in cars

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What is a use of the naptha fraction? [1]

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Feedstock for making chemicals

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What is a use of the diesel oil / gas oil fraction [1]

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Fuel in diesel engines

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What is a use of the bitumen fraction? [1]

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Road surfaces

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What is a homologous series? [2]

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A family of compounds with the same general formula / similar chemical properties

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Describe alkanes [2]

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Saturated hydrocarbons / molecules contain only single covalent bonds

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Describe the properties of alkanes [1]

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Fairly unreactive (except in terms of burning)

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Describe the complete combustion of hydrocarbons [1]

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React with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water

17
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Describe alkenes [2]

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Unsaturated hydrocarbons / molecules contain at least one double covalent bond between carbon atoms

18
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What is cracking? [3]

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Using heat to break long chain alkanes / into shorter chain alkanes and alkenes / requires a catalyst such as aluminium oxide

19
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Name the first four alkanes / first 3 alkenes [2]

A

Methane, ethane, propane, butane / ethene, propene, butene

20
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How can alkenes be tested for and what is the positive result? [2]

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Bromine water / bromine water turns from orange to colourless

21
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What type of reactions do alkenes undergo? [1]

A

Addition reactions

22
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What is the product in the reaction between an alkene and hydrogen? [1]

A

Alkane

23
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What is the product in the reaction between an alkene and bromine? [1]

A

Di-bromo-alkane

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What is the product in the reaction between an alkene and steam? [1]

A

Alcohol

25
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Describe two ways that ethanol can be formed [2]

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Fermentation and the reaction between ethene and steam

26
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Describe two uses of ethanol [2]

A

Solvent / fuel

27
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How can ethanol be manufactured by fermentation and what conditions are required? [4]

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Fermentation of glucose / temperature around 30ᵒC / anaerobic conditions / yeast

28
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Write the word and symbol equation for the fermentation of glucose to form ethanol [2]

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Glucose → Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide C₆H₁₂O₆ → 2C₂H₅OH + 2CO₂

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How can ethanol be produced from ethene and what conditions are required? [4]

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Ethene undergoes an addition reaction with steam / 300ᵒC / 60-70 atm / phosphoric acid catalyst

30
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Write the word and symbol equation for the production of ethanol from ethene [2]

A

Ethene + Steam → Ethanol C₂H₄ + H₂O → C₂H₅OH

31
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What are polymers? [2]

A

Large molecules / built from small units called monomers

32
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How can polymers differ from each other? [2]

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Different units / different linkages

33
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How is polyethene made? [2]

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Addition polymerisation / of ethene monomers

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What is the difference between addition polymerisation and condensation polymerisation? [2]

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Addition polymerisation forms a polymer from alkene monomers / condensation polymerisation forms a polymer by reacting compounds with two different functional groups together

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