Haloalkanes And Haloarenes

Question 1

Name a chlorine containing antibiotic useful in treating typhoid fever

Answer 1

Chloramphenicol

Question 2

Chloroquine is used in treatment of

Answer 2

Malaria

Question 3

Name an anaesthetic for surgery

Answer 3

Halothane

Question 4

Certain fully chlorinated compounds are being considered as potential blood substitutes in surgery.
True or false

Answer 4

False
Certain fully fluorinated compounds are being considered as potential blood substitutes in surgery.

Question 5

In the year 1937, Edward Davies Hughes and Sir Christopher Ingold proposed a mechanism for an

Answer 5

SN2 reaction.

Question 6

Hughes worked under……… and earned a D.Sc. degree from the University of London.

Answer 6

Ingold

Question 7

…………… (1768-1851) developed the first prism that produced plane polarised light.

Answer 7

William Nicol

Question 8

Statement 1: Russian chemist, Alexander Zaitsev (also pronounced as Saytzeff) who in 1875 formulated a rule which can be summarised as “in dehydrohalogenation reactions, the preferred product is that alkene which has the greater number of alkyl groups attached to the doubly bonded carbon atoms.”
Statement 2: Victor Grignard while attempting to find an efficient catalyst for the process of methylation, he noted that Zn in diethyl ether had been used for this purpose and wondered whether the Mg/ether combination might be successful.

Answer 8

Both statements are correct

Question 9

E