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1
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What are hydrocarbons?

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Compounds that only contain carbon and hydrogen.

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If an organic compound contains elements other than carbon and hydrogen, is it a hydrocarbon?

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No

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3
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What are carbohydrates?

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Compounds which contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

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What does the -ate part of carbohydrate show?

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That it contains oxygen.

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What does saturated mean?

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The compound only contains single bonds.

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6
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What does unsaturated mean?

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A compound containing 1 or more multiple bonds.

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What is a multiple bond?

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2 or more covalent bonds between 2 atoms.

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8
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Are alkanes saturated or unsaturated?

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Saturated

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9
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Are alkenes saturated or unsaturated?

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Unsaturated

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10
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What is an organic compound?

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A compound containing carbon

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What is the displayed formulae?

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Formula which shows every atom and every bond separately.

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What is the structural formulae?

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Formula where you do not show the individual atoms (e.g CH3 - CH2 - CH3)

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What is the skeletal formulae?

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Formula that shows the only bonds between the carbon atoms. Every change in direction means there is a new carbon atom.

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What is the molecular formulae?

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They only show how many atoms there are in the whole compound.

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15
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What is the empirical formulae?

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The simplest ratio of atoms.

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When the numbers in the molecular formula cannot be simplified, what does it tell you?

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The molecular formula and empirical formula are identical.

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17
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What is a functional group?

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An atom or group of atoms in a molecule that is responsible for its chemical reactions.

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18
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What is a homologous group?

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A family of compounds with the same functional group, which differ in formula by CH2 each time.

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In a homologous group, what does each compound increase by in terms of Carbons and Hydrogens?

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CH2

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20
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Do alkanes have a functional group?

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No

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21
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Do alkanes form a homologous series?

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Yes

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22
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What is the general formula of alkanes?

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CH2+2

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23
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What is the functional group of alkenes?

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The carbon=carbon double bond

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What is the general formula of halogenoalkanes?

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CnH2n+1X

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25
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What is the general formula of alcohols?

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CnH2n+1OH

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26
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What is the functional group of alcolohols?

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The OH bond

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27
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When alkanes are burned completely in air, what do they form?

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Carbon dioxide and water

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What happens to the boiling temperature of alcohols as you go down the homologous series?

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It increases

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29
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What is ‘Nomenclature’?

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The detailed rules needed for naming very complicated compounds.

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30
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How many carbon atoms does methyl indicate?

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1

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31
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How many carbon atoms does ethyl indicate?

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2

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32
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How many carbon atoms does propyl indicate?

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3

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33
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How many carbon atoms does butyl indicate?

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4

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34
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How many carbon atoms does pentyl indicate?

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5

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35
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What do you do if there is 2 of the same type of prefix?

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You put a ‘di’ infront of it.

e.g. dimethyl or diethyl

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36
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What do you do if there is 3 of the same type of prefix?

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You put a ‘tri’ infront of it.

e.g. trimethyl or triethyl

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37
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If the C=C bond is between the 2nd and 3rd carbon atom of butene, what is the molecule calles?

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But-2-ene

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38
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What do all alcohols end in?

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-ol

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39
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What is a prefix?

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A set of letters written at the beginning of the molecule

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40
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What is a suffix?

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A set of letters written at the end of a name

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41
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What is a locant?

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A number used to indicate which carbon atom in the chain an atom or group is attached to.

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42
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What is the suffix of alkenes?

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-ene

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43
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What is an addition reaction?

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A reaction where 2 or more molecules join together to form a larger molecule.

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44
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What is a polymerisation reaction?

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A reaction where lots of simple molecules form a giant molecule

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45
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What is an elimination reaction?

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When a small group of atoms break away from a larger molecule.

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46
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What is a substitution reaction?

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A reaction where one species is replaced by another

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47
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What is a hydrolysis reaction?

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Splitting a molecule into 2 new molecules by adding H+ and OH- derived from water.

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48
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What is an oxidation reaction?

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A reaction when a species loses electrons

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49
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What is a reduction reaction?

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A reaction when a species gains electrons

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50
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What are mechanisms?

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Diagrams that break reactions down into individual stages to show how substances react together

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51
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What does the curly arrow in a mechanism show you?

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How electron pairs move around.

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52
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In a mechanism, what does the curly arrow point to?

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Where the new bond is being formed at the end of the reaction.

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53
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In a reaction between chloromethane and aqueous potassium hydroxide, what is formed?

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Methanol and potassium chloride

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54
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In the reaction between chloromethane and aqueous potassium hydroxided, what happens?

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  • The carbon-chlorined bond breaks, and the electrons move to the chlorine atom
  • Electrons move from the hydroxide to the carbon to form a new bond
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55
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What are the 3 types of mechanisms?

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  • Radical substitution
  • Electrophilic addition
  • Nucleophilic substitution
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56
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What are nucleophiles?

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Electron pair donors

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57
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Are nucleophiles usually positively or negatively charged?

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Negatively charged ions

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58
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Why are nucleophiles attracted to places that are electron poor?

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Because they are electron rich.

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59
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What is a polar bond?

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A covalent bond between 2 atoms where the electrons forming the bond are unequally distributed.

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60
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Do nucleophiles usually react with positive or negative ions?

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Positive ions

61
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What do S+ and S- show?

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Partial charges

62
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What are nucleophiles attracted to in a polar carbon-halogen bond?

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The C S+ atom

63
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What is nucleophillic substitution?

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When the nucleophile takes the halogen’s place in the original carbon-halogen bond

64
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What are electrophiles?

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Electron pair acceptors.

65
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Are electrophiles usually positively or negatively charged?

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Positively charged

66
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Are electrophiles electron poor or electron rich?

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Electron poor

67
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What are electrophiles attracted to?

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Areas that are electron rich

68
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Where do electrophiles usually react?

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The electron-rich area around a C=C bond/

69
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What is electrophillic addition?

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When an electrophile is strongly attracted to the C=C bond

70
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What are radicals?

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Atoms with an unpaired electron.

71
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Why are radicals very reactive?

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Becuase they have unpaired electrons

72
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What do radicals react with?

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Anything

73
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What makes 2 molecules isomers of each other?

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If they have the same molecular formula but the atoms are arranged differently

74
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What are the 2 types of isomers?

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  • Structural isomers

- Steroisms

75
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What are the 3 types of structural isomers?

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  • Chain isomers
  • Positional isomers
  • Functional group isomers
76
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What are chain isomers?

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The carbons skeleton can be arranged in many ways, can be straight chain or branched.

77
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Give an example of chain isomers:

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Butane and methylpropane

78
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What are positional isomers?

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Where the functional group is attached to a different carbon atom

79
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What type of structural isomers are Butan-1-ol and Butan-2-ol?

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Positional isomers

80
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What are functional group isomers?

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Where the same atoms can be rearranged into different functional groups

81
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What are alkanes?

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Saturated hyrdocarbons

82
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What is the general formula of alkanes?

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CnH2n+2

83
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What is bond fission?

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Breaking a covalent bond

84
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What is heterolytic fission?

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When the bond breaks unevenly with one of the bonded atoms receiving both electrons.
X-Y –> X+ + Y-

85
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What is formed as a result of heterolytic fission?

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A positively charged cation and a negatively charged anion.

86
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What is homolytic fission?

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When the bond breaks evenly and each bonding atom recieves one electron from the bonded pair.

87
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What is formed as a result of homolytic fission?

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Uncharged radicals

88
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What are photochemical reactions?

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Reactions started by ultraviolet light

89
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What are the 3 stages of the reaction mechanism for radical substitutions?

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Initiation, Propagation and termination

90
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How are radicals produced in initiation reactions?

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  • Sunlight provides enough energy to break the Cl-Cl bond
  • Each atom gets one electron.
  • The atom becomes a radical due to its unpaired electron
91
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What is photodissocation?

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When energy from the sun breaks a bond

92
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What happens to the chlorine radical in a propagation reaction?

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  • Cl attacks a methane molecule
  • The new methy radical (CH3( can attack another Cl2 molecule
  • The new Cl radical can attack another CH4 molecule, and so on until all the CH4 and Cl2 molecules are wiped out
93
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What happens to radicals in termination reactions?

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They are destroyed

94
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If two free radicals join together, what do they form?

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A stable molecule

95
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What happens in the termination reaction?

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The different possible radicals join together

96
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What is the problem with termination reactions?

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You end up with a mixture of products.

97
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Why do you get a mixture of products in a termination reaction?

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Because there might be too much of one thing in the reaction and not enough of the other

98
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What is petroleum?

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Crude oil

99
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What is petroleum a mixture of?

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Small alkanes to massive alkanes

100
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How do you split up crude oil?

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Through fractional distillation

101
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What is the 1st stage of fractional distillation?

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Vaporizing the crude oil at 350C

102
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What happens to the vaporized crude oil?

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It rises through the trays, the larger hydrocarbons don’t vaporize as their boiling points are too high

103
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What happens to the crude oil as it goes up the fractionating column?

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It gets cooler, meaning fractions are drawn off at different levels in the column

104
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In fractional distillation, what happens to the hydrocarbons with the smallest boiling points?

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They’re drawn off as gases at the top of the column

105
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What is hydrocarbon cracking?

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Breaking the C-C bond, which results in multiple hydrocarbons being formed.

106
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What are the 2 types of cracking?

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  • Thermal cracking

- Catalytic cracking

107
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What does thermal cracking produce?

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Lots of alkenes

108
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What conditions does thermal cracking take place at?

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A high temperature and high pressure

109
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What does catalytic cracking use?

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A zeolite catalyst at a slight pressure and high temperature

110
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What does catalytic cracking produce?

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Aromatic hydrocarbons and motor fuels

111
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What is knocking?

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Where alkanes explode in their own accord when the fuel/air mixture in the engine is compressed

112
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What does reforming do?

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It converts straight chain hydrocarbons into cyclic hydrocarbons.

113
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What catalyst does reforming use?

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Platinum stuck on aluminum oxide

114
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What is a combustion reaction?

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When you burn alkanes in oxygen.

115
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What are the products of a combustion reaction?

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Carbon dioxide and Water

116
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What can combustion only occur between?

A

Gases

117
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As alkenes release so much energy, what makes them useful?

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They are excellent fuels

118
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How do we generate most of our electricity?

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Through fossil fuels

119
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Name 3 pollutants formed from the incomplete combustion of fuels?

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  • Carbon monoxide
  • Soot
  • Oxides of sulfur and nitrogen
120
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What is the oxygen in your blood carried around by?

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Haemoglobin

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121
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What does carbon monoxide do in your blood?

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It bonds to the haemoglobin before the oxygen, which means less oxygen is carried around your body.

122
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What can acid rain be caused by?

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Fossil fuels that contain sulfur

123
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When sulfur is burned, what is produced?

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Sulfur dioxide gas, which when dissolved in moisture turns into sulfuric acid

124
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When are oxides of nitrogen produced?

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When the high pressure and temperature in a car engine cause the nitrogen and the oxygen in the air to react

125
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What are the consequences of acid rain?

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  • Destroys trees

- Corrodes building and structures

126
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What do catalyctic converters do?

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They get rid of pollutants using a platinum catalyst to change them to harmless gases

127
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What does 2NO + CO —> ?

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N2 +CO2

128
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What is the non-renewable source?

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A source which will run out

129
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What is a renewable source?

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A source which will not run out

130
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What are biofuels made from?

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Living matter

131
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How is biodiesel made?

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By refining renewable fats and oils

132
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When biofuels are growing, what do they absorb?

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Carbon dioxide

133
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What are classified as ‘carbon neutral’?

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Biofuels, as they absorb CO2 and produce CO2 when burnt

134
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What is the general formula of alkenes?

A

CnH2n

135
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What type of bonds are single bonds?

A

Sigma bonds

136
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When is a sigma bond formed?

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When 2 orbitals overlap in a straight line

137
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As there is a high electron density between the 2 nuclei in a sigma bond, what does this mean?

A

There is a strong electrostatic attraction between the nuclei and shared pair of electrons

138
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What type of bond has a high bond enthalpy?

A

Sigma bonds

139
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What is the strongest type of covalent bond?

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Sigma bonds.

140
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What is a double bond made up of?

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A sigma bond and a pi bond.

141
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When is a pi bond formed?

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When 2 lobes of 2 orbitals overlap sideways

142
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As the electron density is spread out in a pi bond, what is the electrostatic attraction like?

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It is weaker than sigma bonds, so pi bonds have relaticely low enthalpy

143
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What is stronger, a single or double bond?

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A single bond is 2x stronger than a double bond

144
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What does planar mean?

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The carbons lay in the same plane

145
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What does trigonal planar mean?

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The atoms attatched to each double bond are at the corners of an imaginary equilateral triangle.

146
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Why can’t C=C bonds rotate?

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Because of the way pi orbitals overlap to form pi bonds

147
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What causes alkenes to form stereoisomers?

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The restricted rotation around the C=C double bond.

148
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What are stereoisomers?

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Isomers that have the same structural formula but a different arrangement

149
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When do stereoisomers occur?

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When the 2 double bonded carbon atoms each have 2 different atoms or groups attatched to them

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