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VocabularyDehydrationSynthesis/

Combustion

Electrophilic addition - HX

Hydrogenation/Radical reactions

Electrophilic addition - HOH

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Final Jeopardy

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What is the positively charged carbon called?

Carbocation

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What is a species with a lone, unpaired electron called?

A free-radical

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What is a positively charged substance desired negative charge called?

An electrophile

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What is the type of addition that occurs when addition to an alkene occurs on the same side of the plane of atoms?

Syn Addition

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What is the name of the rule that states that the nucleophilic part of the reagent will bind with the most stable carbon of the substrate?

Markovnikov’s rule

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What is produced through the dehydration synthesis reaction between two primary alcohols?

An ether

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What is the best acid to use to catalyze a dehydration synthesis reaction (in part due to its strong dehydrating ability)?

H2SO4 (sulfuric acid)

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What ester is made when reacting butyric acid (butanoic acid) with methanol?

Methyl butanoate

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What is the hydrocarbon being burned if exactly 5 moles of molecular oxygen is needed for complete combustion of this alkane?

Propane (C3H8)

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What are the products of COMPLETE combustion?

Carbon Dioxide & Water

Carbon monoxide & carbon are produced when there are insufficient amounts of oxygen.

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What type of alkene is ethene; symmetrical or unsymmetrical?

symmetrical

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What is the major product for the electrophilic addition reaction between propene and H-Br?

2-bromopropane

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What is the first & slowest step of any electrophilic addition reaction?

What is the electrophile of this reaction?

The formation of the carbocation The hydrogen (from either the H-X or from H-OH)

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reaction?

+ H Br

Br

Br

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What is the major product of the following:

+ H Cl

H2O2

Cl Cl

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Hydrogenation reactions are catalyzed by metals that adsorb hydrogen to their surface. What is an example of a metal that would be suitable to catalyze this type of reaction?

Pt, Rh, or Ni

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What is the product for the hydrogenation reaction involving 1-butene & H2(g) using Pt to catalyze this reaction?

butane

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What are the three steps of all radical reactions? Describe each.

Step 1 – initiation – creation of radicals Step 2 – propagation – use of a radical to create

product, but resulting in formation of another radical

Step 3 – termination – two radicals combine to make product, removing radicals from reaction vessel

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What type of bond breakage results on the formation of radicals?

Homolytic fission or homolytic cleavage

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reaction?

+Br

H H

Pt

Br

H

H

Br

H

H

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What is produced when any alkene undergoes the acid-catalyzed addition reaction with water?

An alcohol

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What is the major product for the acid catalyzed hydration of 2-methylbut-2-ene?

2-methylbutan-2-ol

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What is the major product of the following reaction?

+ H O

H

H+

O H

O

H

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What reagent is used if an anti-Markovnikov product is desired?

H2O2

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Identify the products of the following reaction:

+H

OH

BH3,

H2O2

-OH

O H

Final Jeopardy

Show the mechanism used to explain the formation of 2-methyl-2-bromopentane from the electrophilic addition reaction between 2-methylpent-2-ene and HBr. Make certain to include the rate determining step and use arrows correctly.

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