Paper 2 Flashcards
What is a hydrocarbon
A compound which contains hydrogen or carbon only
Homologous series
A series of compounds that contain the same functional group and have the same general formula which differs by CH2
Functional group
Small group of atoms or a single halogen atom that give the compounds in the series particular chemical properties
Hydrolysis
H+ or OH- ions break a bond in a molecule splitting into two parts
How do you obtain alkane fuels
Fractional distillation of alkanes produces large amounts of heavier fuel. These are then cracked over suitable catalysts into smaller alkanes. these straight chained hydrocarbons are reformed into branched chain and cyclic hydrocarbons for efficient combustion by passing them over a suitable catalyst. These have a higher octane and therefore are more suitable for petrol driven cars
Problems which arise from the pollutants of combustion of fuels
Carbon monoxide
Sulphates of sulphur and nitrogen
Carbon particulates
Unburnt hydrocarbons are formed
CO is toxic
Oxides of nitrogen and sulphur are acidic
Alternative fuels
Biodiesel and alcohols
Renewable
Offset carbon released when grown
Some can be made from waste products eg coffee beans
What is a radical
Unpaired electron represented by a single dot
How are free radicals formed
Homolytic fission of a covalent bond
Alkanes plus oxygen in air
Burns balance with oxygen co2 and water
Alkane plus halogens
UV light or bright white light - chlorine and bromine
Free radical substitution
Initiation( homolytic fission of halogen)
Propagation - numerous number of products one radial reacts with one non radical to produce a radical and a non radical. The radical can be organic or a halogen)
Termination - two free radicals come together to produce a non free radical
Unhelpful in organic synthesis as there is a variety of products and further reactions would occur
Electrophile
Electron pair acceptor
Electron is attracted to the e- rich site
Alkenes plus hydrogen
Application
150degrees
Nickel catalyst
Forms alkane
Vegetable oil becomes margarine
Free radical addition
Alkene plus halogen
Room temperature, mix
In organic solvent
Halogen added across double bond
In aqueous solution
One halogen added one OH added
Chlorine and bromine
However iodine is not a strong enough electrophile unless the C=C bond is activated by an oxygen atom
Alkane plus hydrogen halide
Forms halogenoalkane
One halogen and one H added across double bond m
Mix gases at room temperature
Alkene plus steam
H3PO4 acid catalyst
Alkene vaporised
Forms alcohol
Reversible reaction so alcohol is removed by cooling and remaining gases repossessed over catalyst
Alkene plus potassium manganate (VII)
Shake at room temp
alkene + [O] + H20 -> diol
Purple manganate (VII) ions are reduced to ppt of brown manganese ( IV) oxide in neutral or colourless Mn^2+ ions in acid
NOT DICHROMATE
Formation of ions from covalent molecule
Heterolytic fission of the covalent bond
Addition of binary compounds to an alkene
Arrow from double bond to molecule (draw dipole on molecule if polar)
Covalent bond opens, one carbon has the halogen, the other carbon is positive
The negative ion (lone pair) arrow to carbon
Then compound
Markovnikov’s rule
Addition to an A-symmetric alkene, the hydrogen goes to the carbon which already has more hydrogen atoms directly attached
This is because he secondary carbocation is stabilised by the electron pushing affect compared to the primary
Stability of primary secondary and tertiary carbonation intermediated
tertiary is more stable than secondary which is more stable than primary due to the electron pushing effect
Test for C=C bond
Bromine water decolourises from orange
Mix at room temp
Waste polymers
Can be separated into specific types of polymer for
•recycling,
•incineration - producing energy (can produce toxic compounds eg CO)
•feedstock for cracking - producing a mixture of short chain alkene
How do chemists contribute to better use of polymers
- more sustainable use of materials - less energy used making them or not using limited resources
- developing biodegradable polymers
- removing toxic waste gas from the incineration of plastics
What is a nucleophile
Lone pair donor, forms covalent bond with δ+ atom in another molecule
Halogenoalkane plus potassium hydroxide
Hydroxide ion acts as nucleophile
Heat under reflux and aqueous
R-BX + KOH -> R-OH + KX
Halogenoalkane plus aqueous silver nitrate in ethanol
Water acts as nucleophile
R-X + H20 -> R-OH + H+ + X-
Ag+ X -> AgX
ethanol !!
60 degrees
Halogenoalkane plus potassium cyanide
Reflux, aq and ethanol
R-X + KCN -> R-CN +KX
Halogenoalkane plus ammonia
R-X + 2NH3 -> R-NH2 + NH4X
Conc ammonia at room temp
Or heat in sealed tube
Heat in sealed tube so that it reacts fast but ammonia liberated if it was under reflux, ammonia gas would not be condensed by the reflux condenser
Halogenoalkane plus Ethanolic potassium hydroxide
R-Br + KOH -> alkene Of chain length R + H20 + KX
Hydroxide ion acts as a base
Heat under reflux with ethanol conc KOH
Experiment to determine relative rates of reaction of primary secondary and tertiary halogenoalkanes and chloro bromo and iodo halogenoalkanes
Equal amount of the halogenoalkanes are placed in a test tube water bath 60 degrees
ethanol and silver nitrate and time how long it takes the ppt to appear
Tertiary fastest secondary then primary SN1 faster than SN2
Iodo after than bromo faster than chloro because C-I bond enthalpy is the weakest, then bromo then chloro
Mechanism primary halogenoalkane and KOH
Lone pair on OH arrow from that to δ+ carbon, δ- on Br - attacks from opposite side of bromine arrow from C-Br bond to Br
-> Forms intermediate with five bonds, square bracket and Br and OH bonds dotted lines, remember charge on intermediate, -> final product and Br-
Primary halogenoalknes and ammonia mechanism
Lone pair on ammonia, dipole on c-Cl
Lone pair on ammonia arrow to carbon, then arrow from C-Cl bond to Cl
Intermediate with five bonds around carbon and four around ammonia
Then forms 3HN-C-RHH + Cl- ammonia has a positive charge
Another ammonia lone pair arrow attacks hydrogen, arrow from H-N bond to N
Forms NH4Cl + 2HN-CRHH
Alcohol plus oxygen in the air
Burning !
Alcohol plus PCl5
Dry alcohol solid PCl5
R-OH + PCl5 -> R-Cl + POCl3 + HCl
This is the test for alcohol as steamy fumes of HCl is given off
Alcohol plus KBr H2SO4
50% conc H2SO4 to prevent HBr being oxidised, heat under reflux
KBr + H2SO4 -> KHSO4 + HBr
R-OH + HBr -> R-Br + H20
Alcohol plus red phosphorus and I2
Warm, moist red phosphorous
2P + 3I2 -> 2PI3
3R-OH + PI3 -> 3R-I + H3PO3
Alcohol plus potassium dichromate (VI)
Dilute sulphuric acid
R-OH + [O] -> R=O + H20 distill as produced (hot ethanol 60 degrees)
R-OH + 2[O] -> R-OOH + H20 heat under reflux
Secondary -> just to ketone - can be refluxed
HUF, electric heater, then use test for aldehyde to determine if it was primary or secondary secondary
Dichromate orange to green
Phosphoric acid + alcohol
Warm, conc H3PO4
Alcohol -> alkene + H2O
(Or heat over aluminium oxide - separate reaction)
Heating under reflux
Volatile/ flammable / toxic substancesthe
•Place in round bottomed flask with vertical reflux condenser
•Water in at bottom and out at top
•top of reflux condenser being open
•use electric heater
No I reacted reagent escapes
Add antibumping granules
Distill off wanted product at bp
Solvent extraction
Sparingly soluable organic product •shake reaction mixture in separating funnel with solvent eg ethanol, cyclohexane, Dry ether. Depends on circumstance •organic layer collected only •wash and dry organic layer •still off solvent
Suitable solvent dissolves the organic and is low boiling point so can be easily removed
Boiling point determination
- Place a small about of a test liquid in an ignition tube and attach to thermometer with rubber band.
- Place in beaker with water. Clamp thermometer
- Place empty capillary tube in liquid, open end below surface
- Heat water and stir, slowly heat until rapid stream of bubbles comes out. Note temp and stop heating
- allow to cool, stir until bubbles stop and liquid sucked into capillary tube. Note temp
Drying
Use an anhydrous salt such as calcium chloride to remove any water from a crystal product.
Anhydrous sodium sulphate or calcium chloride
Initial mixture is cloudy, clear when dry. Then filter organic liquid
Chirality
Optical isomerism is a result of chirality in molecules with a single chiral centre. This results in optical isomerism. Where the optical isomers are object and non superimposable mirror images
What is optical activity
The ability of a single optical isomer to rotate the plane of polarisation of the plane-polarised monochromatic light in molecules containing a single chiral centre
Racemic mixture
A solution containing equimolar amounts of the two enantiomers does not rotate the plane of plane polarised light
Optical activity as evidence for Sn1 and Sn2 reactions
SN1 - chance of attack is identical from top or bottom - racemic mix. The carbocation has three pairs of bonding electrons and no lone pairs, so it’s shape is triangular planar around the positive carbon atom
SN2 - nucleophile attacks from the opposite side to the halogen therefore single optical isomer
Boiling and melting point of aldehydes and ketones
Lower than alcohols because does not hydrogen bond intermolecular
Solubility of aldehydes and ketones
Solvable as can hydrogen bond with water
They cannot hydrogen bond with themselves
Carbonyl compounds with Fehling/Benedicts
Copper sulphate and potassium tartrate
Deep blue solution
Aldehydes only -> deep blue solution forms red ppt of Cu2O copper (I) oxide
Aldehyde oxidised
R=O + [O] + OH- -> ROO- +H20
Salt of carboxlyic acid
Test for aldehyde
Carbonyl compounds and Tollen’s
Sodium hydroxide and silver nitrate dissolved in dilute ammonia, warm
Only aldehyde
Silver mirror produced
R=O + [O] + OH- -> ROO- +H20
Ag(NH3)2^+ -> Ag + 2NH3
Carbonyl compounds and acidified dichromate (VI) ions
R=O + [O] + OH- -> ROO- +H20
Aldehyde only
Orange reduced to green
(If it was manganate (VII) purple to colourless in acidic or brown ppt in alkaline)
Carbonyl compounds lithium aluminium hydride
In dry ether
Aldehyde -> primary alcohol
Ketone -> secondary
R=O + 2[H] -> R-OH
R1-CO-R2 + 2[H] -> R-CHOH-R2
Also works with hydrogen with a platinum catalyst
Does not reduce double bonds (hydrogen with platinum catalyst does)
Carbonyl compounds plus HCN
In the presence of HCN pH 8
R=O + HCN -> ROHCN
Excess potassium cyanide and some dilute sulfuric acid or hydrogen cyanide and some sodium hydroxide
pH allows enough of CN- and HCN
Carbonyl + HCN mechanism
Dipole on C=O lone pair on CN- from the KCN but as ion
Arrow from CN lone pair to carbon, arrow from double bond to oxygen
CRHCNO-
Lone pair on negative oxygen attacks hydrogen on HCN molecule, arrow from H-CN bond to the carbon
Forms CRHCNOH and CN-
If pH is too low not enough CN- if too high not enough HCN
Optical activity of product of HCN KCN and carbonyl compound
Racemic minxture, planar around C=O group, equal chance of attack from left right of planar centre
(Not the intermediate which is tetrahedral). The initial aldehyde is the planar one
Carbonyl plus (2,4-DNPH)
Test for carbonyl group
Brady’s reagent
Orange ppt
Filter off and recrystallise and do melting point determination to indentify compound
Does not do carboxylic acids
Iodine in the presence of alkali plus carbonyl compound
Does ethanal, methyl ketones, ethanol also(gets oxidised first) and secondary methyl alcohols, gently warm with iodine and sodium hydroxide
CH3COR + 3I2 + 4NaOH -> CHI3 + RCOO-Na+ + 3NaI + 3H2O
Stepwise
I2 + 2OH- -> IO- + I- + H2O
CH3COR + IO- CI3COR IO withdrawing weakens σ bond with carbon -> CHI3 + RCOO-
Pale yellow ppt of iodoform is produced
Boiling point of carboxylic acid
Higher as it can hydrogen bond
Solubility of carboxylic acids
Soluble ad can hydrogen bond
Preparation of carboxylic acids
•R-OH + 2[O] -> RCOOH + H2O
•R=O + [O] -> RCOOH
heat under reflux with acidified potassium dichromate primary alcohol
RCN + H+ + 2H2O -> RCOOH + NH4+
Reflux with dilute acid
Or hydrolysis of an Ester
Carboxylic acid plus lithium aluminium hydride
RCOOH + 4[H] -> ROH + H20
Dry ether
Carboxylic acid plus base
RCOOH + NaOH -> H2O + RCOO-Na+
Carboxylic acid plus PCl5
Solid, dry acid
RCOOH + PCl5 -> ROCl + POCl3 + HCl
carboxylic acid plus alcohol
Acid catalyst conc H2SO4
RCOOH + R’OH reversible RCOOR’
Acyl chloride plus water
RCOCl + H20 -> RCOOH + HCl
Vigorous
Acyl chloride plus alcohol
RCOCl + R’OH -> RCOOR’ + HCl
Not reversible and Cl is a better leaving group therefore better than wth carboxylic acid
Dry
Acyl chloride with ammonia
Conc ammonia, dry
RCOCl + NH3 -> HCL + RONH2
HCl + NH3 -> NH4Cl
Acyl chloride plus amine
RCOCl + R’NH2 -> RCONHR’ + HCl
Dry
Hydrolysis of esters
Acid
RCOOR’ + H20 ⇌ RCOOH + R’OH acid cat, low yield
Alkali
RCOOR’ + NaOH -> RCOO-Na+ + R’OH
Goes to completion
Polyester formation
Condensation - water is lost
Acyl chloride then HCl lost
Monomers join together with the elimination of a simple molecule such as water or hydrogen
Bonding in benzene
Kekule model and delocalised model
Overlap of p-orbitals to form π-bonds
Evidence for the delocalised model of the bonding in benzene
•Enthalpy of hydrogenation :
The predicted value is lower, more exothermic than the true value because benzene is stabilised because of the delocalisation of the π-electrons
Predicted -357 real -207 KJmol^-1
•c-c bond lengths, C=C is slightly shorter than C-C in aliphatic compounds, x-ray diffraction shows that the bond lengths between the C atoms are the same
•does not undergo the typical electrophilic addition reactions of unsaturated compounds
Why is benzene resistance to bromination
The π-bonds are delocalised in benzene and localised in π-bond of alkene
The compound is more stable
Substitution rather than addition
Benzene plus oxygen in air
Burns
Bromine plus benzene
Iron catalyst
2Fe + 3Br2 -> 2FeBr3
FeBr3 + Br2 -> FeBr4- + Br+
Bromine liquid
Dry conditions
Heat under reflux
Br substitutes onto ring for hydrogen
Benzene + Br2 -> bromobenzene + HBr
Or UV light - heat under reflux, addition occurs from free radicals
Benzene and nitric acid
Sulphuric acid conc Of H2SO4 and HNO3 catalyst warm to 50degrees in flask with reflux condenser
HNO3 + H2SO4 -> H2NO3^+ + HSO4-
H2NO3^ -> NO2+ + H2O
NO2 substitutes on ring
H lost replaces in HSO4-
Fridel-Crafts reaction
Alkylation
Dry
R-Cl + AlCl3 -> R+ + AlCl4-
R+ substitutes on ring, H takes a Cl forming HCl and reforming the AlCl3
Acylation
Dry
Acyl chloride, anhydrous aluminium chloride
R-OCl + AlCl3 -> R+=O + AlCl4-
Mechanism of electrophilic substitutions
Generate electrophile
1) Kekule
•arrow from a double bond to the electrophile
•intermediate has positive charge on the carbon next to the one the electrophile has attached too, arrow from the hydrogen carbon bond next to electrophile back to where double bond is reformed
•double bond reformed
•show catalyst regenerated by hydrogen
2) delocalised -> instead of coming from double bond, comes from Armstrong inner circle
•gets circle turns into horseshoe open opposite where the electrophile has attached, positive charge inside horseshoe,
•arrow from hydrogen bond carbon bond to positive charge in horse shoe
•show solvent getting reformed