6.2 Nitrogen Compounds

Question 1

What is a chiral carbon?

Answer 1

A carbon atom with 4 different groups attached and will have optical isomers

Question 2

What is a racemate?

Answer 2

A 50:50 mixture of each enantiomer

Question 3

Racemic mixtures have no effect on what?

Answer 3

Plane polarised light

Question 4

What do enantiomers do?

Answer 4

Rotate plane polarised light in opposite directions

Question 5

Chiral molecules have ___________ mirror images.

Answer 5

Non-super impossible

Question 6

How is a polyester made?

Answer 6

By condensation polymerisation between -COOH and -OH

Question 7

What is a polyamide made from?

Answer 7

Diamine and dicarboxylic acid

Question 8

What is a polypeptide made of?

Answer 8

Amino acids joined together

Question 9

Which type of hydrolysis is faster for a polyamide?

Answer 9

Acid

Question 10

What can you change a nitrile functional group into?

Answer 10

Anime or carboxylic acid

Question 11

What are useful properties of CFCs?

Answer 11

Stable, volatile, non-flammable, non-toxic

Question 12

What is the overall equation for ozone breakdown?

Answer 12

O3 + O > 2O2

Question 13

What are the propagation steps for the breakdown of ozone, where R is the free radical catalyst?

Answer 13

R + O3 > RO + O2

RO + O > O2 + R