Chem Topic 6 - Organics Flashcards
Equation for butane combusting in oxygen
C4H10 + 6.5O2 = 4CO2 + 5H2O
Equation for methane reacting with a halogen
CH4 + Cl2 = CH3Cl + HCl
Which halogen doesn’t react with alkanes
Iodine
What are the products of the radical substitution of chlorine?
Two chlorine radicals (atoms)
Cl•
General formula for Alkanes
CnH2n+2
General formula for Alkenes
CnH2n
Which out of Alkanes and Alkenes has a carbon=carbon double bond
Alkenes
Which hydrocarbon can do electrophillic addition
Alkenes because their pi bind is an accessible cloud of electron density and so is attacked by electrophiles
Which type of compound can do nucleophillic substitution?
Halogenalkanes have a polar carbon-halogen bond that is attacked by nucleophiles
The reaction between propene and bromine is a nucleophilic substitution, true or false
False
It is an electrophilic addition
What’s the general formula of halogenoalkanes
CnH2n+1X
What is an electrophile
A compound that forms new bonds by accepting a pair of electrons from an electron rich site in a molecule to form a new covalent bond
What is a nucleophile
A species with a lone pair that’s used to form a covalent bind with a delta + site in a another molecule
What are the products of a halogenalkane and Na or K OH under reflux
The alcohol and NaOH/KOH
Steps for the reaction between a SECONDARY or TERTIARY Halogenoalkanes with hydroxide ions Sn1
1) radical substitution of the halogen to leave a Halide and a positive hydrocarbon (Slow)
2) hydroxide ion bonds to positive hydrocarbon (Fast)