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Module 6 Flashcards

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1
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What is a stationary phase (in chromatography)?

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The phase that doesn’t move

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What is a mobile phase (in chromatography)?

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The phase that does move (through the stationary phase)

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What reagents are required to halogenate benzene, and what kind of reaction is it?

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Electrophilic substitution, requiring FeBr3 (to form Br+ electrophile), or the equivalent Fe-halogen compound

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What reagents are required to alkylate benzene, and what kind of reaction is it?

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Electrophilic substitution, requiring a haloalkane and a halogen carrier (e.g. FeCl3)

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What is produced when an acyl chloride reacts with ammonia?

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A 1” amide

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What reagents are required to nitrate benzene and what kind of reaction is it?

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Electrophilic Substitution reaction, requiring nitric acid and sulphuric acid (to form NO2+ electrophile)

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How can you hydrolyse polymers?

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Acid (NaOH + H2O) or base (H+ + H2O) hydrolysis

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How can you turn a carbonyl into a hydroxynitrile?

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add hydrogen cyanide (or make it in situ)

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How can you form hydroxynitriles from a carbonyl compound?

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Add sulphuric acid and sodium-cyanide (to form hydrogen cyanide in-situ) - good for increasing chain length

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What effect(s) does the NO2 (nitro) group have on the benzene ring?

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It ‘deactivates’ it, making it less able to react with electrophiles and also directing to position 3 substitutions

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How can you reduce a Ketone?

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2[H] (from the NaBH4) and water, to produce a secondary alcohol

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12
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How could ethylamine act as a base?

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Accept a proton to become an ethylammonium ion

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Describe the structure of the delocalised model of benzene?

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Adjacent p-orbitals overlap sideways to form a ring of electron density above the below the plane of bonding (known as a pi-system)

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How do you bromate phenol and what type of reaction is it?

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Electrophilic substitution, add 3Br2, no catalyst is required

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How can you test for a carbonyl group?

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Add Brady’s reagent (2,4-DNP in methanol and sulphuric acid), if positive, a yellow/orange ppt forms

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16
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What does phenol ‘behave as if it were’?

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A weak acid, it can partially dissociate protons from its hydroxide group

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What is the name of the product (an ester) of the reaction between ethanoic acid and methanol?

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Methylethanoate

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How does a zwitterion behave at a pH higher than its isoelectric point?

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As an acid, the inverse is true also

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How can nitriles be hydrolysed?

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Add water and HCl, under heat

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What evidence is there to reject the Kekulean model of benzene?

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Relatively unreactive
- Benzene does not undergo electrophilic addition or decolourise bromine water as it would if there were double bonds
Carbon-carbon bond length
- X-ray diffraction has shown all of the bonds to be the same length (a length in between single and double)
Hydration Enthalpies
- The enthalpy of hydrogenation is less than 3x that of cyclohexene (which would be the expected value if Kekule was right)

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20
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What reagents are required to acylate benzene, and what kind of reaction is it?

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Electrophilic substitution, requiring an acyl-chloride and a halogen carrier (e.g. FeCl3)

23
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How can nitriles be reduced into animes?

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Add H2 with a Ni catalyst

25
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In gas chromatography, what is the stationary phase and what is the mobile phase, and how are the results presented?

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Stationary Phase: Boiling Liquid
Mobile Phase: Carrier Gas (and sample mixture)
Output is ‘retention time’

26
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How can carbonyls react by nucleophilic addition with NaBH4, and how with NaCN?

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Where an intermediate is formed and then protonated, making an alcohol or a hydroxynitrile respectively

27
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How can you hydrolyse an ester bond?

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  • Acid hydrolysis under reflux, with water (reversible)

- Alkali hydrolysis under reflux, with OH- ions (irreversible), produces ethanoate ions

28
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What are the alternate names of the 2,3 and 4 positon-substitutions?

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2 is also known as ortho
3 is also known as meta
4 is also known as para

29
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How do you form a secondary anime from a haloalkane?

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Add a primary anime then NaOH

31
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How does the solubility of carboxylic acids change is the chain length increases?

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Solubility decreases, because the effect of the hydrogen bond is ‘drowned out’ by the increasing alkane chain

32
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How can you acylate aromatic compounds?

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Using a halogen carrier - AlCl3 etc. and an acyl chloride (to form an aromatic keytone)

33
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How can you turn a haloalkane into a nitrile?

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Add potassium cyanide

34
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How can you alkylate aromatic compounds?

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Using a halogen carrier - AlCl3 etc. and a haloalkane

35
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How can you prepare an organic solid?

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Reduced-pressure filtration, using a Buchner funnel and flask
Recrystallization, adding the hot-crystals to a solute and allowing it to cool out

36
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How can you form Acyl chlorides?

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From carboxylic acid and SOCl2 (makes carboxyl-chloride and SO2 and HCl gas - so do it in a fume cupboard!)

38
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How can you reduce an aldehyde?

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2[H] (from the NaBH4) and water, to produce a primary alcohol

39
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What is a zwitterion?

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An ion with no overall charge, since the charges of the groups behaving as an acid and a base both cancel out (at the isoelectric point)

40
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What types of polymers can be made from condensation?

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Polyesters and polyamides

41
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How can you identify a carboxyl group?

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By reacting it with a carbonate (they are the only common organic compound sufficiently acidic to react), a positive test will show effervescence

42
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Why is phenol more reactive than benzene?

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The lone pair of electrons from the p-orbital of the OH is donated into the pi-system and makes the ring more electron dense, increasing susceptibility to electrophile attack

42
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What is produced when an acyl chloride reacts with an alcohol?

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An ester

43
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What effect(s) does the NH2 (anime) group have on the benzene ring?

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It ‘activates’ it, allowing it to react more readily with electrophiles and also directing to positions 2 and 4 substitutions

43
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What is produced when an acyl chloride reacts with water?

A

A carboxylic acid

43
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How can you form an aromatic anime, from nitrobenzene?

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6[H] and Sn + concentrated HCl and excess NaOH

44
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How can you determine melting point?

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Melting point apparatus

Thiele tube

45
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How do you form a primary anime from a haloalkane?

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Add excess NH3 then NaOH

46
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When phenol is nitrated (adding nitric acid), which 2 products are formed?

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2-Nitrophenol and 4-Nitrophenol

48
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What is the (general) relationship between activating and deactivating groups?

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All activating groups are 2 and 4 directing (except for halogens)
All deactivating groups are 3 directing

48
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What are the conditions and reagents required for the oxidation of an aldehyde, and what does it form?

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Potassium dichromate and sulphuric acid, under reflux, to produce carboxylic acid

48
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How can you test for an aldehyde?

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Add Tollen’s reagent, positive test forms silver mirror

49
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What is an optical Isomer?

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Two versions of a molecule that cannot be superimposed, and are mirror images of one another

50
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What is produced when an acyl chloride reacts with a 1” amide?

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A 2” amide

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