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Organic Chemistry Flashcards

1
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What is a hydrocarbon?

A

Alkenes and alkanes are made of only Hydrogen and Carbon atoms
They are used for fuels

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What happens if you increase the chain of a hydrocarbon?

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  • More viscous (sticky)
  • Less volatile (higher boiling point)
  • Less flammable
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Equation for the combustion of hydrocarbons?

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Hydrogen + Oxygen —-> Carbon dioxide + Water

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4
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What is crude oil?

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Crude oil is a fossil fuel buried deep under ground
It is made of plankton and dead animals.
It is also non-renewable

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5
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Fractional Distillation of crude oil:

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  1. The oil is heated until it is a gas
  2. The column temperature gradient (bottom hottest, top coolest)
  3. As the travel up they condense and separate
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Uses of cracking alkanes?

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1) Transport
2) Making new compounds (polymers e.g)
Shorter chain alkanes are more useful so we crack longer chain alkanes to form shorter ones

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How do we crack alkanes?

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A thermal decomposition reaction

Cracking long chain alkanes makes a short chain alkane and an alkene

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Method of cracking:

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  1. Heat long chain hydrocarbons to vaporise them
  2. Vapour is passed along a hot catalyst (catalytic cracking)
    or
  3. Pass vapour and mix with steam and then heat to very high temperatures (steam cracking)
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What is an alkene?

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Alkenes have a double C=C bond
This allows alkenes to open up and bond with other compounds
Alkenes are much more reactive than alkanes
CnH2n+2

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Alkenes combust completely. What is this equation?

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Alkene + oxygen —-> Carbon + Carbon Monoxide + Carbon dioxide + Water

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How do we form an Alcohol?

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Alkene + Steam —-> Alcohol

(water)

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What is hydrogenation of alkenes?

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R H H H
\ / | |
C = C + H2 —-> R - C - C - H
/ \ | |
H H H H

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What happens to a halogen + alkenes?

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H H H Br
\ / | |
C = C + Br2 —-> H - C - C - H
/ \ | |
H H H H

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What is the test for alkenes?

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Mix an alkene with Bromine water and the solution should turn orange to colourless

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15
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What are addition polymers?

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Long chains of joined monomers

Polymerisation usually happens under high pressure and a catalyst

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16
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What do the monomers need to make polymers?

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The monomers used need to have C=C bonds

17
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How to show the reaction for polymerisation?

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H H H H
| | | |
n ( C=C ) —->. -(-C=C-)-n
| | | |
H H H H
Many single ethenes | Poly-ethene

18
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What happens to the molecules in polymerisation?

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No molecules are lost the amount stays the same before and after

19
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What is an alcohol?

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An alkene reacted with steam
Has an -OH functional group
CnH2nOH

20
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What are the properties of alcohols?

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  • Alcohols are flammable
  • The first 4 are soluble in water and are neutral pH
  • They react with sodium
  • Form carboxylic acids
21
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What are the uses of alcohols?

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They dissolve most things so handsanatizer

the first 4 are used as fuels

22
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How is ethanol made?

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Fermentation:

       YEAST Sugar ----------> Ethanol + carbon dioxide

Fermentation uses an enzyme in yeast to convert sugar into alcohol.
37C, no oxygen, slightly acidic

23
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What are carboxylic acids?

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Have a functional -COOH group

          O
        //
H - C  
        \
       OH
24
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Reactions of carboxylic acids?

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Ethanoic acid + sodium carbonate —> Sodium ethanoate + water + carbon dioxide

25
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What happens when carboxylic acids dissolve in water?

A

They release H+ ions (acidic)

26
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What is an ester?

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Made from an alcohol + carboxylic acid —-> ester + water

Have a functional COO group

27
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Condensation ploymers

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Involves monomers with different functional groups

Weak links and for every link made a molecule is lost

28
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Naturally occurring polymers?

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Polymers are also found in the natural world too.

Amino acids contain two functional groups
Amino. group (NH2) and carboxylic group (COOH)
H H O
\ | //
N - C - C
/ | \
H H OH

29
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What can amino acids form through condensation polymerisation?

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Amino groups react with acid groups of another to form a polymer chain (water is lost for every chain made

30
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DNA is a polymer

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DNA is a polymer made of chains of nucleotIdes containing a bas A,C,T,G

31
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Simple sugars also form polymers

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  1. Sugars are small molecules made of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen
  2. Sugars react to form larger carbohydrate polymers like starch

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