UNIT 15-HYDROCARBONS🤎 Flashcards

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define an alkane and a hydrocarbon

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Define saturated hydrocarbons, speak about the reactivity of alkanes in terms of bond strength and polarity

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explain 2 reactions resulting in the formation of alkanes (reagents and conditions)

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describe the complete and incomplete combustion of alkanes using example equations (reactants and products)

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explain the free radical substitution of alkanes using an equation representing the net reaction and conditions

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describe the mechanism of free radical substitution by explaining the three steps

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explain how cracking is used to obtain more useful products from heavier crude oil fractions (products and conditions involved in cracking alkanes)

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state the environmental dangers of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and unburnt hydrocarbons, using equations explain how traffic emissions can be reduced

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describe three reactions through which alkenes can be produced (processes, reactants, products, conditions)

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describe this reaction of an alkene (process, conditions, reagents, catalysts if present): hydrogenation

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describe this reaction of an alkene (process, conditions, reagents, catalysts if present): electrophilic addition of steam

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describe this reaction of an alkene (process, conditions, reagents, catalysts if present): electrophilic addition of a hydrogen halide

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describe this reaction of an alkene (process, conditions, reagents, catalysts if present): electrophilic addition of a halogen

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describe this reaction of an alkene (process, conditions, reagents, catalysts if present): oxidation (cold KMnO4)

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describe this reaction of an alkene (process, conditions, reagents, catalysts if present): oxidation (hot KMnO4)

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13
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define additional polymerisation (for understanding), describe this reaction of an alkene: additional polymerisation (draw the repeating units using ethene and propene as examples)

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14
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describe the use of a reagent to test for unsaturated compounds

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15
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define electrophilic addition, describe the mechanism of electrophilic addition of Hbr to propene and Br2 to ethene using diagrams

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explain the inductive effects of alkyl groups on the stability of primary, secondary and tertiary cations formed during electrophilic addition

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