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How are aldehydes produced?

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Oxidation of primary alcohols

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What is a ketone?

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Two hydrocarbon groups attached and a carbonyl group

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How are ketones produced?

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Oxidation of secondary alcohols

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How does the solubility of aldehydes and ketones change?

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Decreases with increasing chain length

As chain length increases, the hydrocarbon portions of the molecules prevent such attractions occurring

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Why are aldehydes and ketones soluble in water?

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Form hydrogen bonds with water molecules
Dispersion forces and dipole-dipole attractions between it and the water molecule exist. This releases energy which supplies energy needed to separate water molecules

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Draw a diagram for how aldehydes and ketones form hydrogen bonds with water

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Sheet

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What is the carbonyl group?

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C=O

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What is Brady’s reagent?

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2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine

Red orange solid, usually supplied wet to reduce the risk of explosion

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What is the displayed formula of Brady’s reagent?

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1.6.24

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What do aldehydes and ketones react with Brady’s reagent to form? What are they called?

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Yellow/orange/red crystalline solids

2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine derivatives

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What is Brady’s reagent used for?

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Identifying aldehydes and ketones

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What sort of reaction occurs between Brady’s reagent and aldehydes or ketones?

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Condensation

Addition followed by elimination of water

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How is the 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine derivative removed?

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Filtration and purified by recrystallisation fig 1.6.27

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Why use Brady’s reagent?

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The derivatives are less soluble and therefore crystallise out more easily, so it is more useful

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What are aldehydes readily oxidised to form?

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Carboxylic acids

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What are ketones oxidised to form?

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Don’t oxidise readily

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How can the oxidisation of aldehydes be carried out?

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Warming with a solution of potassium dichromate (VI) acidified with sulphuric acid

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What are the most common tests to determine whether it is an aldehyde or ketone?

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Fehling’s solution
Tollen’s reagent
Acidified dichromate (VI) ions
Benedict’s solution

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What is Fehling’s solution?

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A - Cu2+ complexes with sodium dihydroxybutanedioate

B- NaOH

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What is Benedict’s solution?

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Alkaline solution Cu2+ ions

Cirate ions

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What happens when Fehling’s or Benedict’s solution is used on an aldehyde or ketone?

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Aldehyde
Red-brown precipitate of copper (I) oxide
Ketone
No reaction- stays blue

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What the equation for the reaction of aldehydes with Fehling’s solution?

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2Cu2+ + OH- + RCHO + H2O –> Cu2O(s) +RCOOH + 3H+

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What is an aldehyde?

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C=O bond with a H attached to the same C atom

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What the equation for the reaction of aldehydes with Tollen’s reagent?

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2Ag+ + RCHO +H2O –> 2Ag(s) +RCOOH + 2H+

No reaction with ketone

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What are aldehydes and ketones used to reduce? What is the reagent required?
Aldehydes - primary alcohols Ketones - secondary alcohols Sodium tetrahydridoborate (NaBH4) dissolved in ethanol
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How are hydroxynitriles formed?
Aldehydes and ketones undergo addition reactions with HCN in presence of a KCN catalyst The nucleophile, CN-, attacks the central carbon atom, displacing a pair of electrons in the double bond and pushing them onto the oxygen atom, leaving the oxygen atom with negative charge The oxygen then acts as a base and gains a proton from the HCN, reproducing the CN- Forms a racemic mixture
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What is formed in the triiodomethane reaction and what reagents are used?
CHI3 and sodium alkanoate | Excess NaOH and iodine
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What is triiodomethane?
Insoluble so forms a yellow crystalline precipitate
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What gives a positive result for the triiodomethane reaction?
Contain a methyl group next to a carbonyl group or can react to give a methyl group next to a carbonyl group
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What is the equation for the triiodomethane reaction?
Look up
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What are the properties of carboxylic acids governed by?
Polarity of the carboxyl group and the length of the carbon change As the length of the chain increases, the influence of the functional group decreases
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How does hydrogen bonding affect carboxylic acids?
Relatively high melting and boiling temperatures Soluble in water. Longer chains become less soluble because the organic nature of the carbon chain becomes dominant More than 8 carbon atoms - solid at room temperature and slightly soluble in cold water but more so in hot
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How can carboxylic acids be prepared?
Prolonged oxidation of primary alcohols or aldehydes, for example heating with acidified potassium dichromate (VI) under reflux Hydrolysis of a nitrile by boiling with dilute acid RCN + 2H2O + H+ --> RCOOH + NH4
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How can carboxylic acids be reduced?
Only possible to reduce back to alcohol Lithium tetrahydridoaluminate suspended in a dry ether at room temperature Addition of water at end with destroy any excess LIAl4 RCOOH + 2[H] --> RCH2OH + H2O
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What happens when a carboxylic acid is dissolved in water?
Dissociates to form H+ and carboxylate ions Behaves as an acid Further anaylsis shows CO bonds identical (delocalised charge) so doesn't attract cations as strongly
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What is the equation of a carboxylic acid with a base?
RCOOH + NaOH RCOO-,Na+(s) + H2O
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What are the properties of the salts formed from the reaction between carboxylic acids and water?
Ionic so have crystalline structures and readily soluble Polar carboxylate group is hydrophilic and carbon chain is hydrophobic which mix with grease while the other parts stay outside Negatively charged polar heads repel each other, allowing them to be carried away by water
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How does the length of a carbon chain affect the solubility of the salts formed from the reaction between carboxylic acids and water?
Short chains show mainly ionic character Long chains show mainly organic character Medium chains have a combination of the characteristics and are used in soaps and detergents
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What reacts with phosphorus (V) chloride? What are the products?
Test for OH group (carboxylic acid and alcohol) | POCl3 + HCl + Cl substituted for OH
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How is an ester formed?
Carboxylic acid mixed with alcohol in presence of strong acid catalyst such as HCl Esterification Slow equilibrium reaction so more reactive chemicals often used such as (ethanoyl) chlorides or (ethanoic) anhydride
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How is an ester named?
Name starts with 'alyl word' from alcohol used | Followed by acid ending with '-oate'
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What are the properties of esters?
Volatile Relatively low melting and boiling temperatures Not very soluble in water or polar substances Distinctive fruity smells
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What are esters used for?
Manufacture of soap and detergents | Solvent in the manufacture of adhesives
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What reagents and conditions are needed for acid hydrolysis of an ester? Give an equation
Boiling with water and using dilute acid Dilute acid provides hydrogen ions which catalyse reaction CH3COOC2H5 + H2O --> CH3COOH + CH3CH2OH
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What reagents and conditions are needed for base hydrolysis of an ester? Give an equation
Boiled with potassium hydroxide solution More efficient process because when acid is released it is neutralised by alkali to form potassium salt (doesn't react with alcohol) CH3COOC2H5 + OH- --> CH3COO- + CH3CH2OH
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How is a polyester formed? What is produced? What type of reaction is it?
Dicarboxylic acid and diol react Water produced and OH bonds break to form ester linkage Condensation polymerisation Diacyl chlorides and diacid anhydrides can be used in place of dicarboxylic acid
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How are acyl chlorides produced? How do they react in comparison to carboxylic acids?
PCl5 react with carboxylic acid | React in same way but more readily because Cl causes delta + charge on C so more susceptible to attack by nucleophiles
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How do acyl chlorides react with water?
Hydrolysed rapidly with water (even from air) | CH3COCl + H2O --> CH3COOH +HCl
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How do acyl chlorides react with alcohols?
Produce esters and HCl | Mixing without heat
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What is the mechanism for the reaction between acyl chlorides and alcohols?
Lone pair on O from OH attracted to delta + C in acyl chloride Breaks bond with Cl to produce Cl- O has positive charge H from OH bonds with Cl- to form HCl
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How do acyl chlorides react with concentrated ammonia?
Form amides without heating | CH3COCl + NH3 --> CH3CONH2 + HCl
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What does 'n-methyl' mean?
Methyl group is attached to nitrogen atom?
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How do acyl chlorides react with amines?
N-methylethanamide | CH3COCl + CH3NH2 -->CH3CONHCH3 + HCl
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What is optical isomerism?
Form of stereoisomerism Mirror images of each other/ not superimposable Chiral molecules with chiral centre indicated by *
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What are enantiomers?
Different forms of optical isomers Similar chemical and physical properties but are optically active (different effects of plane-polarised light) Biological systems are sensitive to difference, eg only D-propoxyphene used as painkiller
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What is plane-polarised light?
A wave in which the oscillations occur in one plane only
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How does a polarimeter work?
Optically active mixture rotates plane-polarised light Rotate second piece of polariod to stop all light coming through, called angle of rotation Source of light is monochromatic (single wave length) Gives optical activity of substance
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What is a racemic mixture?
Enantiomers are in 1:1 ratio Clockwise rotation counteracts counterclockwise rotation Not optically active
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What is the Sn2 mechanism?
Arrangement is turned inside out in the process called inversion of configuration Centre temporarily has 5 bonds Negative ion removed Rotation can be opposite but sometimes has no effect
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What is the Sn1 mechanism?
Bond with electronegative ion breaks -OH can attack from either above or below Forms a racemic mixture
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Why is the C=O bond permanently polarised?
Oxygen has a much higher electronegativity so electrons are attracted more strongly to oxygen atom, especially in pi bond

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