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Making Halogenoalkanes Flashcards

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What is a reaction mechanism?

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A series of steps that shows you how something/substance is going to react

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What does a double headed arrow show in organic chemistry

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It shows movement of paired electron

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What is a free radical

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Any atom with an unpaired electron

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What is a substitution reaction?

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A species takes the place of part of a molecule

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What happens at the initiation step of the free radical substitution

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Free radicals are made.
UV
Cl2 —-> 2Cl•

UV acts as a catalyst

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What happens at the propagation step of the free radical substitution

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Free radicals make more free radicals

Cl• + CH4 —-> HCl + •CH3
•CH3 + Cl2 —-> CH3Cl + Cl•

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What happens at the termination step of the free radical substitution

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Free radicals react with each other and make no more free radicals.

•CH3 + •Cl —-> CH3Cl

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