What's in a medicine Flashcards
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Test for Phenol
Add FeCl3
Yellow —> Purple
Phenol Conductivity
Not conductive
Delocalised electrons in the centre
Phenol melting and boiling point
Can form hydrogen bonding so high
Solubility of Phenol in H2O
H-bonds means it can be soluble
Benzene ring is not soluble
Two different Phenol reactions
-Acid
-Organic
Acid reactions
+ Alkali/base —-> salt + H2O
+metal —-> salt + hydrogen
+Carbonate —-> salt + water + CO2
Reversible
Esterification Reactants
Alcohols Acyl chloride HCl
Phenols Acid anhydride C.acid
Carboxylic acid H2O
C.acid mpt/bpt
H-bonding so relatively high
C.acid conductivity
No free e-s so don’t conduct
C.acid solubility
Can form H-bonds so soluble in water
Test for C.acid
Add carbonate and see if it fizzes/ bubbles
How to name alcohols
normally end in ‘anol’
If OH is not the main functional group use hydroxy
Alcohol conductivity
Unconductive
Alcohol solubility
H-bonding so soluble
Less soluble as the C chain increases
Alcohol mpt/bpt
H-bonding so relatively high
Can alcohols be acids
Very weak ones
Only react with metals
Nucleophile definition
A negative or partially negative species which forms a bond by donating a pair of electrons (dative bond)
Elimination reaction
A small molecule is removed to introduce a c=c bond
Only one reactant
Oxidation reaction
Alcohols are oxidised by reacting them with an oxidising agent - typically Cr2O7 2-
Orange —-> green
Conditions for oxidation of alcohols
Alcohol —-> Aldehyde = distillation
Alcohol ——-> C.acid = reflux
Alcohol ——-> Ketone = reflux
Infared spectroscopy
A way to identify what types of bonds are present and absent in organic molecules
What happens in Infared spectroscopy
IR is missing due to being absorbed and the bonds vibrating more. Different bonds absorb different frequencies of IR
Fingerprint region
Below 1500cm-1
Unique to each molecule
Identified by comparing to a spectra on a database
Mass spectrometry
Counts and weighs molecules
Shows the fragmentation breaks of molecules
The molecule MUST have a +1 charge