Y2 Carbonyls (O) Flashcards
Nucleophile definition
An electron pair donor
Electrophile definition
An electron pair acceptor. Attracted to areas of high electron density
Why do acyl chlorides undergo nucleophilic addition reactions?
- The oxygen and chlorine atoms attached to the carbonyl carbon are electronegative. - - They pull the electrons in the covalent bonds toward them, leaving the carbonyl carbon positive
- This makes it available for attack by nucleophiles.
What type of reactions do acyl chlorides undergo?
Nucleophilic addition elimination
What acyl chloride reactions do you need to know?
Reactions with:
- water,
- alcohol (ethanol),
- ammonia,
- a primary amine
What is the product of acyl chloride and each reactant?
with water —> carboxylic acid
with alcohol —> ester
with ammonia —> primary amide
with primary amine —> secondary amide (N-subsituted amide)
What is the mechanism for the reduction of a ketone or aldehyde?
Nucleophilic addition with NaBH4 (with methanol and water) or LiAlH4 (with dry ether)
ketones and aldehydes can also undergo nucleophilic addition with…?
- A cyanide ion
- chain length +1
- hydroxy nitrile formed
What is the nucleophile of nucleophilic addition reactions
H(-) /hydride /hydrogen anion
Solubility of carbonyls
- as the length of the chain increases
- carbonyls become less soluble in water
- the significance of the polar C=O bond decreases
- aren’t then dissolved in a polar solvent
Why does ‘like’ dissolve ‘like’?
-polar compounds are dissolved by polar solvents as small intermolecular forces between the molecules will be created e.g dipole-dipole bonding and hydrogen bonding.
- non polar compounds will be disolved in non polar solvents depending on chain length creating v.d.w imf.
Why won’t a non-polar compound dissolve in a polar solvent? e.g hexane in a water solvent
as water is polar it is far more likely to undergo hydrogen bonding with other water molecules than bond to hexane.
How many H does one reduction require?
2 [H+]
Reactant for oxidation
Potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) and dilute H2SO4
colour change of potassium dichromate
orange Cr(6+) to green Cr(3+) colour change
Reactant for reduction
NaBH4 (sodium borohydride) or LiAlH4 (lithium aluminium hydride)
What to Tollen’s and Fehlings solution indicate?
aldehyde is present ( as can be partially oxidised further but ketones can’t)
Fehling’s solution colour change
Blue Cu(2+) ions –> brick red ppt Cu2O
Tollen’s reagent colour change
colourless –> silver mirror
[Ag(NH3)2]+ complex ions form metallic Ag+ (silver)
What two Nucleophilic addition reactions happen with ketones and aldehydes?
Reduction with cyanide or hydride ion
If undergoing Nucleophilic addition of a carbonyl with cyanide ion
Hydroxy nitrile produced will be an optically active isomer. And form two enantiomers with a chiral carbon.
- Watch out for it! Think
Why are racemates formed in equimolar ratios (50:50)?
- Attacks onto a planar molecule at the carbon
- There is equal opportunity of the cyanide ion attacking above or below the plane
- Therefore, enantiomers and racemates are formed
- Results in a trigonal planar molecule
What are all reducing sugars?
Aldehydes