Topic 7- organic chemistry Flashcards
What are group 7 metals also called?
Halogens
Are group seven metals?
No
What happens to the halogens as you go down the group
The get less reactive
They have higher melting and boiling points
What are alkali metals also known as?
Group one
Give some features of alkali metals
Soft
Low density
Very reactive
Why are alkali metals so reactive
The outer electrons are a long way from the nucleus and have a weaker attraction
Easy to lose the one element
What happens to the alkali metals as you go down the group?
They get more reactive
Low melting and boiling points
What group are noble glasses
Group 0
Metals have what sort of ion
Positive
What do you atoms react to form?
A full outer shell of electrons
Give some properties of transition metals?
good conductors
Shiny
Strong
Dense
Where about on the table are transition metals
Central
Get some properties of metals
Strong
malleable
conductors
high boiling and melting points
Name the three parts of an atom and if they’re positive or negative
Proton positive
neutron neutral
electron negative
Give the amount of electrons allowed on each shell
1,8,8
How do you work out the amount of neutrons by looking at the amount of protons electrons and neutrons
Relative atomic mass= p+n
Atomic number= both electrons and protons
So…. relative atomic mass-atomic number= neutrons
(Electrons-little)
(Protons- little)
(Neutrons big take little)
What are two parts to a chemical equation
Reactants and products
What happens when elements react?
Atoms combine with other atoms to form compounds
What is a compound?
2 or more elements together Ina substance
Explain how fractional distillation works
Oil is heated until it’s a gas and the enters a fractionating column
The column is coolest at the top and hottest at the bottom
The long hydrocarbons have high boiling points they condense back to liquids and leave the column early on at the bottom
The shorter hydrocarbon length means it’s got a lower point and they leave to column later, once they’ve condensed at the top
What are the alkanes like at the top of the column
Alkanes are shorter
less viscous
more volatile
What are the alkanes like at the bottom of the column
Alkanes longer
More viscous
Less volatile
How are hydrocarbons made
The plankton dies and gets covered with mud. Pressure and heat builds up and then the newly made hydrocarbons get dug up
What are the hydrocarbons in crude oil called?
Alkanes and alkenes
How is crude oil separated?
Fractional distillation
Name the two atoms that make a hydrocarbon
Hydrogen
Carbon
Are alkanes saturated or unsaturated?
Saturated
What is crude oil
A mixture of different compounds
Are alkenes saturated
No, they’re unsaturated
By cracking hydrocarbons what are made
Alkenes and alkanes
What’s the rhyme for alkanes and alkenes
Men eat polar bears
What do alkenes have?
A double bond
What’s the formula for alkenes
CnH2n
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What’s the polymer displayed formula
( h h )
-(-c-c-)-
( h h
How do you show an alkenes reacting with hydrogen?
The double bond opens up and lets in the new amount of hydrogen(2)
What does ethene and steam make?
Ethanol
What do you do to Ethene when steam (h20) is added
Remove the double bond and add an O-H
What happens when hydrocarbon fuels are burned in plenty of air
The hydrogen and carbon in the fuel become completely oxidised- complete combustion
The shorter the carbon chain the…
Less viscous
More volatile
More flammable
What makes an ester
An alcohol and a carboxylic acid
How do you make an ester displayed formular
You do the carboxylic acid minus the h
You connect that to the original alkane minus the h
Can alkenes react with halogens
Yep!
What’s bromine and ethene?
Dibromoethane
Give the equation for incomplete combustion
Fuel+ bit of oxygen=> carbon monoxide and water
Why is carbon monoxide produced in incomplete combustion
When there isn’t enough oxygen
Give the equation for complete combustion
Fuel+bit of oxygen=> carbon dioxide+ water+ heat
What does limewater do and what does it test for
Cloudy/milky
carbon dioxide
What is cobalt chloride paper a test for
Water vapour
Give the formula for alkanes
CnH(2n+2)
What’s the equation for propane
C3H8
What does every carbon atom have
4 bonds
What’s the end part of a carboxylic acid
COOH
Give the four carboxylic acids
Methanoic
Ethanoic
Propanoic
Butanoic
Give the letters for esters
Cooc
Give the first four esters
Methyl Ethyl Propyl Butyl (Methanoate, ethanoate etc)
How do you draw the displayed formula for a carboxylic acid
Take 3 Hs from the alkane
Add a double bond oxygen and an O-H
What are polymers made up of
Lots of the same molecules joined together in one long chain
What do polymers make
Plastic
Lots of small monomers make…
Polymers
What’s the reaction called that makes polymers
Polymerisation
How can polymers be made with alkenes
The double bond can open up and join together to make a polymer
Lots of ethene molecules make,,,
Polythene
Poly(ethene)
Give the four alcohols
Methanol
Ethanol
Propanol
Butanol
How do do make an alcohol displayed formula
Remove one h and add an o-h
What’s a fuel?
A source that releases energy from a store whilst using oxygen from the atmosphere when a fuel is burned, energy is made, carbon dioxide and smoke is released
What’s the carbon footprint
A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released over a cycle
How do I reduce the carbon footprint
Using renewable energy resources
More efficient processes putting a cap on emissions
What does sulfur dioxide make
Acid rain
Name three greenhouse gases
Corbin dioxide methane water vapour
What do greenhouse gases act as
Insulation layer
Explain the greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases absorb long wavelength radiation they then reradiate in all directions including back towards earth longwave radiation is thermal radiation which makes the warming of the Earth happen
Give some causes of climate change
Burning fossil fuels volcanoes erupting sunspot cycle
cutting down trees
transport
Yes some consequences of a climate change
Rising sea levels agricultural effects extinction
more natural rain and temperatures disasters
ice caps melting
How has the oxygen increased
Algae used energy from the Sun to do photosynthesis releasing oxygen. Algae and bacteria thrive In the sea
How did the carbon dioxide decrease
It got locked into rocks and dissolved in the new oceans