ORGANIC INTRO

Question 1

What are radicals?

Answer 1

Highly reactive, neutral species

Question 2

What is heterolytic fission?

Answer 2

When one bonding atom receives both

electrons from the bonded pair

Question 3

What is homolytic fission?

Answer 3

It happens when each bonding atom
receives one electron from the bonded
pair forming two radicals

Question 4

Define structural isomerism

Answer 4

When molecules have the same molecular

formula but different structural formula

Question 5

Give the prefixes for:
a) CH3
 group
b) C2H5
 group
c) C3H7
 group
d) C4H9
 group
e) Cl group
f) Br group
g) I group

Answer 5

a) CH3 group methyl
b) C2H5 group ethyl
c) C3H7 group propyld) C4H9 group butyl
e) Cl group chloro
f) Br group bromo
g) I group iodo

Question 6

Give the suffixes for:

a) No double bonds
b) At least one double bond
c) An alcohol
d) An aldehyde
e) A ketone
f) A carboxylic acid

Answer 6

a) No double bonds -ane
b) At least one double bond -ene
c) An alcohol -ol
d) An aldehyde -al
e) A ketone -one
f) A carboxylic acid -oic acid

Question 7

What is a functional group?

Answer 7

A group of atoms responsible for

characteristic reactions of a compound

Question 8

define homologous series

Answer 8

A series of organic compounds having
the same functional group but with each
successive member differing by CH2