Alcohols

Question 1

What is the functional group do an alcohol?

Question 2

What are alcohols general formula?

Question 3

How do you name alcohols?

Question 4

Compare and contrast the melting point and boiling point of alcohols to hydrocarbons with similar carbon chain lengths

Question 5

Are alcohols soluble in water?

Question 6

What makes an alcohol ‘primary’?

Question 7

What makes an alcohol ‘secondary’?

Question 8

What makes an alcohol ‘tertiary’?

Question 9

How is alcohol produced industrially ?

Question 10

How is ethanol produced industrially?

Question 11

What conditions are needed for the production of ethanol industrially?

Question 12

How is ethanol which is produced industrially separated?

Question 13

Define biofuel

Question 14

Define carbon neutral

Question 15

What is the equation that’s shows how ethanol produced by fermentation is carbon neutral fuel

Question 16

State points ‘for’ and ‘against’ the statement of ethanol produced by fermentation being carbon neutral

Question 17

Describe the mechanism for the formation of alcohol by the reaction of an alkene with steam in the presence of an acid catalyst

Question 18

List the environmental (including ethical) issues of making biofuel

Question 19

What is formed if you partially oxidise a primary alcohol?

Question 20

What conditions are needed to partially oxidise a primary alcohol?

Question 21

State the equation for the partial oxidation of ethanol

Question 22

What forms when a primary alcohol is fully oxidised?

Question 23

What conditions are needed for the complete oxidation of a primary alcohol?

Question 24

Write an equation for the complete oxidation of primary alcohols

Question 25

What forms if you oxides a secondary alcohol?

Question 26

What are the conditions needed for the oxidation of secondary alcohols?

Question 27

Write an equation for the oxidation of propan-2-ol

Question 28

What is an aldehyde and state it’s functional group?

Question 29

How do you name aldehydes? Give an example

Question 30

What is a ketone and state it’s functional group?

Question 31

How do you name ketones? Give an example

Question 32

What is a carboxylic acid and state it’s functional group?

Question 33

How do you name carboxylic acids? Give an example

Question 34

Why can tertiary alcohols not be oxidised?

Question 35

What is the test for aldehydes? State the positive result

Question 36

What is the test for ketones? State the positive result

Question 37

What is Tollen’s reagent made of and how does that react with substances in order to be tested?

Question 38

How do you carry out the Tollen’s test?

Question 39

What is in Fehling’s reagent and how does that react with substances in order to be tested?

Question 40

What is the result of the Tollen’s test for both aldehydes and ketones?

Question 41

What conditions do you need to use the Fehling’s solution?