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Oxidation of alcohols and reduction of carbonyls Flashcards

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How many carbons bonded to the carbon which a primary alcohol is bonded to?

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How many carbons bonded to the carbon which a secondary alcohol is bonded to?

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2

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How many carbons bonded to the carbon which a tertiary alcohol is bonded to?

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Why does it matter if an alcohol is primary secondary or tertiary?

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Because you can predict the products in reactions

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Three different reactions alcohols undergo

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Combustion, elimination and oxidation

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What do primary alcohols oxidise to form?

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Aldehydes then carboxylic acids

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What do secondary alcohols oxidise to form?

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Ketones

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What do tertiary alcohols oxidise to form?

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Nothing. They don’t oxidise

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What is the difference between an aldehyde and a ketone?

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An aldehyde is at the end of the chain and a ketone is within the chain

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What chemical do you react a primary alcohol with to make an aldehyde?

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Potassium dichromate (VI)

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Do you use distillation or a reflux reaction when oxidising a primary alcohol all the way to a carboxylic acid?

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Reflux

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colour change when potassium dichromate reduces a primary or secondary alcohol

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Green to orange

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What reducing agent is used in a non-aqueous solvent?

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Lithium tetrahydridoaluminate

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Chemical formula for Lithium tetrahydridoaluminate

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LiAlH4

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What reducing agent is used in an alcohol or water solution?

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sodium tetrahydridoborate

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Chemical formula for sodium tetrahydridoborate

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NaBH4

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Summary equation for reduction of an aldehyde to a primary alcohol

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RCHO + 2[H] -> RCH2(OH)

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Summary equation for reduction of ketone to a secondary alcohol

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RCOR’ + 2[H] -> RCH(OH)R’

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Summary equation for reduction of a carboxylic acid all the way to a primary alcohol

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RCOOH + 4[H] -> RCH2OH + H2O

20
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Does oxidation or reaction make more water molecules?

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Reduction

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