A-LEVEL CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY III. Flashcards
(118 cards)
WHAT IS BENZENE?
BENZENE IS A CYCLIC, PLANAR MOLECULE WITH THE FORMULA C6H6.
BENZENE STRUCTURE.
IN BENZENE THE CARBON HAS FOUR,4, VALENT ELECTRONS.
EACH CARBON IS BONDED TO TWO,2, OTHER CARBONS AND ONE,1, HYDROGEN ATOM.
THE FINAL LONE ELECTRON IS IN A P-ORBITAL WHICH STICKS OUT ABOVE AND BELOW THE PLANAR RING.
BENZENE LONE ELECTRON.
THE LONE ELECTROSN IN THE P-ORBITALS COMBINE TO FORM A DELOCALISED RING OF ELECTRONS.
DUE TO THE DELOCALISED ELECTRONS TRUCTURE ALL OF THE C-C BONDS IN THE MOLECULE ARE THE SAME.
THEY HAVE THE SAME BOND LEGNTH, 139pm.
CARBON TO CARBON BOND LENGTH IN BENZENE.
THE C-C BOND LENGTH IN BENZENE LIES BETEWEEN 154pm, SINGLE BOND, AND 134pm, DOUBLE BOND.
HOW IS BENZENE NORMALLY DRAWN?
BENZENE IS NORMALLY DRAWN IN THE SKELETAL FORMULA.
WE DO NOT SHOW THE HYDROGENS IN THE SKELETAL FORMULA.
KEKULE’S STRUCTURE.
THIS REFERS TO THE STRUCTURE OF BENZENE.
THIS STRUCTURE SHOWS BENZENE WITH DOUBLE BONDS.
IT IS CALLED KEKULE’S STRCTURE NAMES AFTER AUGUST KEKULUE WHO DISCOVERED IT.
HE THOUGHT THERE WAS ALTERNATING DOUBLE AND SINGLE BONDS.
DRAWING BENZENE TO SHOW DELOCALISED ELECTRONS.
THIS STRUCTURE IS THE HEXAGON WITH THE CIRCLE IN THE MIDDLE.
THE CIRCLE IS REFERD TO AS THE DELOCALISED RING.
THIS STRUCTURE SHOWS THE DELOCALISED ELECTRON SYSTEM AND YOU WILLL BE MORE LIKELY TO SEE THIS THAN THE KEKULE STRUCTURE, HOWEVER BOTH CAN BE USED.
THIS IS KNOWN AS THE DELOCALISED MODEL.
BENZENE STABILITY.
BENZENE IS ACTUALLY MORE STABLE THAN THE THEORETICAL ALTERNATIVE CYCLOHEXA-1,3,5-TRIENE.
THE ALTERNATING SINGLE AND DOUBLE BOND MODEL.
HOW DO WE MEASURE THE STABILITY OF BENZENE?
WE MEASURE THE STABILITY OF BENZENE BY COMPARING THE ENTHALPY CHANGE OF HYDROGENATION IN BENZENE AND CYCLOHEXA-1,3,5-TRIENE.
IF WE HYDROGENATE CYCLOHEXENE IT HAS THE ENTHALPY CHANGE OF -120kLmol^-1, CYCLOHEXENE HAS ONE,1, DOUBLE BOND.
IF BENZEE HAS THREE,3, DOUBLE BONDS WE WOULD EXPECT AN ENTHALPY CHNAGE OF HYDROGENATION OF 360kJmol^-1.
BENZENE, REAL ENTHALPY CHANGE OF HYDROGENATION.
BENZENE HAS A PREDICTED ENTHALPY CHANGE OF HYDROGENATION OF -360kJmol^-1.
HOWEVER, WHEN WE MEASURE THE ENTHALPY CHANGE OF HYDROGENATION FOR BENZENE IT IS FAR LOWER AT -208kJmol^-1.
THIS IS THE EXPERIMENTAL VALUE.
ENERGY IS REQUIRED TO BREAK BONDS AND ENERGY IS RELEASED TO FORM BONDS.
THIS SUGGETS MORE ENERGY IS REQUIRED TO BREAK BONDS IN BENZENE THAN CYCLOHEXA-1,3,5-TRIENE.
LESS EXOTHEMIC, AS LESS HEAT IS GIVEN OUT FROM BOND FORMATION.
AS MORE ENERGY IS TAKEN IN FOR BOND BREAKING.
THIS SUGGESTS THAT BENZENE IS MORE STABLE THAN THE THEORETICLA CYCLOHEXA-13,5-TRIENE WITH THREE,3, DOUBLE BONDS.
THE STABILITY IS DUE TO THE DELOCALISED ELECTRON STRUCTURE.
WHAT IS BENZENE?
BENZENE IS A HYDROCARBON.
BENZENE BURNING WITH OXYGEN.
BENZENE BURNS READILY IN OXYGEN.
BENZENE BURNS IN OXYGEN TO PRODUCE CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATER IF BURNED COMPLETELY.
THIS IS NO DIFFERENT TO BURNING A STANDARD HYDROCARBON.
THE REACTION FOR THE COMPLETE COMBUSTION OF BENZENE IS:
2C6H6 + 15O2 -> 12CO2 + 6H2O.
INCOMPLETE COMBUSTION.
IN REALITY CARBON DOES NOT BURN COMPLETELY AS THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN IN THE AIR.
AS A RESULT WE GET A LOT OF UNREACTED CARBON ATOMS, SOOT, AND A BLACK SMOKY FLAME IS OBSERVED.
ADDING BROMINE TO AN ALKENE.
ALKENES HAVE A DOUBLE BOND AND UNDERGO ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION.
ADDING BROMINE WATER TO AN ALKENE CAUSES A COLOUR CHANGE FROM BROWN-ORANGE TO COLOURLESS.
BROMINE, BROWN-ORANGE, IS THE ELECTROPHIE AND ADDS TO THE ALKENE FORMING A DIBROMOALKANE, COLOURLESS.
THIS IS BECAUSE BROMINE IS A DIATOMIC MOLECULE, Br2.
ADDING BROMINE TO AN ALKENE THE MECHANISM.
Br2 IS POLARISED AS THE ELECTRONS IN THE DOUBLE BOND REPELS ELECTRONS IN Br2.
AN ELECTRON PAIR IN THE DOUBLE BOND IS ATRACTED TO THE DELTA POSITIVE BROMINE AND FORMS A BOND.
THIS BREAKS THE Br-Br BOND.
A CARBOCATION INTERMEDIATE IS FORMED AND Br- IS ATTRACTED TO C+.
COLOURLESS DIBROMOALKANE FORMED.
ELECTROPHILE IN THE ADDITION OF BROMINE TO AN ALKENE.
BROMINE IS THE ELECTROPHILE AS IT ATTRACTED TO THE REGION OF HIGH ELECTRONDENSITY IN THE DOUBLE BOND.
ARENES REACTION.
WHEN ARENES REACT THEY UNDERGO ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS.
WHY IS BENZENE ATTRACTED TO ELECTROPHILES?
BENZENE HAS A HIGH ELECTRON DENSITY AS IT HAS A DELOCALISED RING OF ELECTRONS.
THIS IS ATTRACTIVE TO ELECTROPHILES, ELECTRON LOVING SUBSTANCES.
BENZENE HIGH ELECTRON DENSITY.
BENZENE HAS A HIGH ELECTRON DENSITY AS IT HAS A DELOCALISED RING OF ELECTRONS.
WHY CAN BENZENE NOT UNDERGO ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION REACTIONS?
AS WE HAVE SEEN BENZENE IS STABLE SO UNLIKE TRADITIONAL AKENES THEY DO NOT UNDERGO ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION REACTIOS, UNLIKE THE BROMINATION OF ALKENES, AS THIS WOULD DISRUPT THE STABLE RING OF ELECTRONS.
ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUTION OF BENZENE.
INSTEAD OF UNDERGOING ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION THEY UNDERGO ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS, WHERE A HYDROGEN OR A FUNCTIONAL GROUP ON THE BENZENE RING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE ELECTROPHILE.
HOW MANY MECHANISMS ARE THERE FOR THE ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUTION REACTION OF ARENES?
THERE ARE FOUR,4, MECHANISMS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
FRIEDEL-CRAFTS ACYLATION,
FRIEDEL-CRAFTS ALKYLATION,
HALOGENATION REACTION,
NITRATION REACTION.
AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.
AROMATIC COMPOUNDS ARE MOLECULES THAT CONTAIN A BENZENE RING, THEY ARE ALSO KNOWN AS ARENES.
NAMING AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.
THEY ARE NAMED IN TWO,2, WAYS.
WE CAN NAME THE BENZENE AT THE END.
FOR EXAMPLE, BROMOBENZENE.
WE CAN USE THE WORD PHENYL TO NAME THEM.
HERE WE USE PHENYL AS IF IT IS A FUNCTIONAL GROUP, C6H5.
FOR EXAMPLE.
C6H5OH,
PHENOL.
C6H5NH2.
PHENYLAMINE.