Flashcards in Organic Chemistry Chapter 4: Analyzing Organic Reactions Deck (55)
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What is a lewis acid?
electron acceptors
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What is a lewis base?
electron donor
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What is a B-L acid?
proton donor
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What is a B-L base?
proton acceptor
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What are amphoteric molecules?
can act as either acids or based, depending on reaction conditions. ex. water
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What is the acid dissociation constant?
Ka - a measure of acidity, the equilibrium constant corresponding to the dissociation of an acid into HA into a proton and its conjugate base
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What is pKa?
the negative logarithm of Ka --- the lower the pKa, the stronger the acid
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What is the pKa trend in the periodic table?
decreases down the periodic table and increases with electronegativity
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What are alpha hydrogens?
hydrogens connected to an alpha carbon (carbon adjacent to a carbonyl
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What are common acidic functional groups?
alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and c.a. derivatives
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What are common basic functional groups?
Amines and amides
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What are nucleophiles?
nucleus loving and contain lone pairs or pi bonds. They have increased electron density and often carry a necative charge.
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What can affect nucleophility?
charge, electronegativity, steric hinderance and the solvent
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What are common nucleophiles?
amino groups
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What are electrophiles?
electron-loving and contain a positive charge or are positively polarized.
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What are common electrophiles?
alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids & derivatives
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What are leaving groups?
molecular fragments that retain the electrons after heterolysis. good leaving groups can stabilize additional charge through resonance or induction. Weak bases make good leaving groups.
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What is heterolysis?
opposite of coordinate covalent bond formation - a bond is broken and both electrons are given to one of the two products.
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What types are almost never leaving groups?
Alkanes and hydrogen ions because they form reactive anions
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What are the steps of a unimolecular nucleophilic substitution?
1. leaving group leaves, forming a carbocation, an ion with a positively charged carbon atom.
2. the nucleophile attacks the planar carbocation from either side, leading to a racemic mixture of products
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What do Sn1 reactions prefer?
more substituted carbons because the alkyl groups can donate electron density and stabilize the positive charge of the carbocation.
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What is the rate of an Sn1 reaction dependent on?
only on the concentration of the substrate
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What is a bimolecular Sn2 nucleophilic substitution?
Happens in one step - nucleophile attacks at the same time as the leaving group leaves.
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What happens to the stereochemistry in an Sn2 reaction?
Nucleophile performs a backside attack, which leads to an inversion of stereochemistry.
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What happens to the configuration if the incoming nucleophile and the leaving group have the same priority in the molecule?
Then absolute configuration is changed from R to S or vice versa.
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What is the oxidation state?
The charge that an atom would have if all of its bonds were completely ionic
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What is the lowest and highest oxidation state of carbon?
lowest - CH4
highest - CO2
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What is the order of functional groups oxidation from most to least?
Carboxylic acids & derivatives > aldehydes > ketones and imines > alcohols > alkyl halides > amines
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What is oxidation?
increase in oxidation state and is assisted by oxidizing agents
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