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P2: Organic Chemistry Flashcards

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What is crude oil?

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The remains of plankton and other living material buried in mud millions of years ago.

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Where is crude oil found today?

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Rocks, and people have to drill underground to get it.

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Is crude oil finite or infinite?

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A finite resource, meaning it will eventually run out.

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What is crude oil made up of?

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A mixture of different hydrocarbons

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What is a hydrocarbon?

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A compound made only from carbon and hydrogen atoms.

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What is the general formula for alkanes?

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C(n) H(2n+2)

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What are alkanes?

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Saturated hydrocarbons

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What are the names of the first 4 alkanes?

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Methane, ethane, propane and butane.

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What are the hydrogen and carbon atoms connected by in alkanes?

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Single covalent bonds.

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What are the different groups of hydrocarbons called?

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Fractions.

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10
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How are the different hydrocarbons separated in crude oil?

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Fractional distillation.

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Do long hydrocarbons have higher or lower boiling points?

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Higher. As a result, long hydrocarbons condense nearer the bottom of the column.

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What is the first step in fractional distillation?

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Evaporate the crude oil by heating it. This causes most of the hydrocarbons to evaporate and rise up the fractional distillation column.

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Do short hydrocarbons have lower or higher boiling points?

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Lower. As a result, short hydrocarbons condense near the top of the fractional distillation column where it is cooler.

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List some of the fuels that crude oil fractions are used as.

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Petrol, diesel oil, kerosene, heavy fuel oil, liquified petroleum gas. Others are chemical products used in everyday life, such as solvents, lubricants, detergents and polymers.

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What are alkenes?

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Desaturated hydrocarbons. These are more reactive than alkanes.

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Why are alkenes more reactive than alkanes?

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Because of the presence of a double bond in alkenes.

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What is the standard formula for alkenes?

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C(n) H(2n)

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How do you test for alkenes?

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Place bromine water into the container with the alkenes. Bromine water changes from orange to colourless.

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What can alkenes be used for?

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Making polymers and a range of other chemical products.

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Describe the properties of longer hydrocarbons.

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They have higher boiling points, higher viscosity and low flammability.

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Describe the properties of shorter hydrocarbons.

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Lower boiling points, lower viscosity and high flammability.

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What is the chemical term for burning?

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Combustion

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What happens when hydrocarbons combust?

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Energy is released. This makes them useful as fuels.

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What are the products of complete combustion?

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Carbon dioxide and water.

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Show the word equation of complete combustion of a hydrocarbon.

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Hydrocarbon + Oxygen -(heat)—> Carbon Dioxide + Water

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What is the name of the process to break down longer hydrocarbons?

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Cracking

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Why is cracking done?

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To break longer hydrocarbons into smaller ones, and to meet the demand for fuel.

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What are the two different methods of cracking?

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Catalytic cracking and steam cracking.

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What does catalytic cracking involve?

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Passing the hydrocarbon over a hot catalyst at low pressure.

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What are the products of cracking?

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A mixture of smaller alkanes and alkenes.

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27
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What does steam cracking involve?

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Long hydrocarbons reacting with steam at high temperatures.

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What type of reaction is it when alkenes react with other reactants?

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An addition reaction

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29
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What happens to the carbon bond in alkenes during an addition reaction?

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The double bond becomes a single bond to allow the two carbon atoms to make new bonds.

30
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What is the functional group for alkenes?

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C=C (two Carbons with a double bond)

31
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Which ones are more likely to combust incompletely: alkenes or alkanes?

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Alkenes

32
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What causes incomplete combustion?

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A lack of oxygen.

33
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Describe the flame produced when alkenes burn.

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A smoky flame.

34
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What are the products of incomplete combustion?

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Carbon, carbon monoxide and water.

35
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What do alkenes react with to produce alcohol?

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Water vapour. It needs a temperature of ~300° and a catalyst.

36
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What is the functional group of an alcohol?

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-OH. All alcohols’ names end in “-ol”.

37
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What is released when alcohols react with sodium?

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Hydrogen gas.

38
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What do alcohols release when they burn in air?

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Energy, carbon dioxide and water. This means alcohols can be used as fuels.

39
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What happens when alcohols are added to water?

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They dissolve to form a neutral solution.

39
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What do alcohols react with to form carboxylic acids?

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Oxidising agents.

40
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What chemical is used to convert sugar into ethanol?

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Yeast

41
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What is the process whereby yeast converts molecules into ethanol?

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Fermentation

42
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What are the products of fermentation?

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Ethanol and Carbon Dioxide.

42
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What is fermentation?

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The process of converting sugar into ethanol using yeast.

43
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What kind of conditions does fermentation require?

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Anaerobic conditions, and temperature should be ~30° Celsius

44
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Describe the process of fermentation.

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Mix sugar solution with yeast. Yeast converts sugar solution into a solution of ethanol.

45
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What are the advantages of using fermentation to produce ethanol?

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-The low temperature means that the reaction requires little energy,
-The sugar from the reaction comes from plants, so therefore it is renewable.

46
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What is a disadvantage of fermentation to produce ethanol?

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The product is an aqueous solution of ethanol. We then need to purify the ethanol by distillation, which requires energy.

47
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What is the functional group of carboxylic acids?

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-COOH

47
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What do all carboxylic acids’ names end in?

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“-oic acid”.

48
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What is produced when carboxylic acids react with metal carbonates?

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A salt, water and carbon dioxide.

49
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What is formed when carboxylic acids dissolve in water?

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They form weak acids. This is because they only partially ionise in water.

50
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What is formed when carboxylic acids react with alcohols?

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Esters. Water is also formed, but this is a separate molecule. A condensation reaction.

51
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What is the ester functional group?

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-COO-

52
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Describe two properties of esters.

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-Insoluble in water
-Characteristic smells

52
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How are esters formed?

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Condensation reaction between a carboxylic acid and an alcohol.

53
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What are polymers?

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Long chain organic molecules.

54
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What are polymers formed from?

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Many smaller molecules called monomers.

55
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What are the two types of polymerisation?

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Addition polymerisation and condensation polymerisation.

56
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What are the monomers like in addition polymerisation?

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Small and unsaturated molecules. The monomers are all alkenes.

57
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What is produced during addition polymerisation?

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Only the polymer. No other molecules.

58
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How are condensation polymers formed?

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When monomers with functional groups at both ends react together.

58
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What is condensation polymerisation?

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The polymerisation involving monomers with two different functional groups.

59
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Why are condensation polymers called that?

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Because small molecules such as water are also produced during the reaction.

60
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What are DNA molecules made of?

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2 polymer chains coiled together in a double helix.

61
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What are the polymer chains in DNA made from?

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4 different monomers called nucleotides

62
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What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

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DNA, A natural polymer.

63
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What does DNA do?

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Encodes the genetic information needed for living organisms and viruses to function.

64
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What monomers are starch and cellulose polymers formed from?

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Glucose monomers. They are linked in a different way to give the two different polymers.

65
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Give the general name of the four different monomers which make up the structure of DNA.

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Nucleotides

66
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What do amino acids contain?

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An amino group (-NH2) and a carboxyl group (-COOH)

67
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What can amino acids be polymerised to make?

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Polypeptides and proteins.

68
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What is an oxidising agent?

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Something that gains electrons. Makes the other reactant lose electrons. For example sulfuric acid.

69
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What is a homologous series?

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A group of organic compounds that have similar chemical properties, due to them having the same functional group

70
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What is a feedstock?

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A raw material used to provide reactants for an industrial reaction

70
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What is a petrochemical?

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A substance made from crude oil via chemical reactions.

71
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What type of reaction is cracking?

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Thermal decomposition, because heat is used to break it up.

72
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What is PRODUCED when alcohol reacts with sodium?

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A salt and hydrogen

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