CHAPTER 25- BENZENE AND IT'S COMPOUNDS 🤎 Flashcards
Define the following types of organic mechanisms: homolytic fission, heterolytic fission
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Define an electrophile and a nucleophile
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Define the following kinds of reactions
Addition: electrophilic addition, nucleophilic addition
Elimination
Substitution: free-radical substitution, electrophilic substitution, nucleophilic substitution
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In detail, draw and describe the shape of a benzene ring (refer to it’s structure, bonding, bond angles, hybridisation etc)
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Draw a table showing which eight groups are 2,4,6 directing and 3,5 directing
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the reaction between an arene/methyl arene and Cl2/ Br2, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of the reaction
-Explain what happens to a methyl arene in the presence of UV light
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Explain the difference in reactivity between a halogenoalkane and a halogenoarene e.g chloroethane and chlorobenzene
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the nitration of arenes, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of this reaction
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the alkylation of arenes, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of this reaction
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the acylation of arenes, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of this reaction
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the complete oxidation of the side chain, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of this reaction
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the hydrogenation of the benzene and methylbenzene ring, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of this reaction
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Give some information about phenol (refer to solubility, state, bonding and polarity)
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Write a general reaction and draw a mechanism for the production of phenol, state the conditions of this reaction
-Explain what occurs at each stage of this reaction
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Explain the acidity of phenol
-Compare the acidity of phenol to the relative acidities of water and ethanol, explain why their acidities differ (use diagrams in your explanation)
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