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A high-boiling bp = 202 - 204 degrees C, burns with a yellow, sooty flame. Sodium fusion indicates that halogens, nitrogen and sulfur are not present.
You react an unknown alcohol with acetic anhydride in a condenser. (The temperature of the alcohol solution drops with the addition of acetic anhydride).
Explain why dichloroethene has a boiling point of 60 degrees C while trans-dichloroethene has a boiling point of 48 degrees C.
When 2-butene reacts with hydrogen chloride gas, only one product is detected, whereas when 1-butene reacts similarly, two products are usually found.
HBr can be added to an alkene in the presence of peroxides (ROOR). What function does the peroxide serve in this reaction?
The best reagent to use to obtain 2-methyl-1-cyclohexanol from 1-methyl-1-cyclohexene is a. H2O plus dilute acid
A younger student is contemplating taking Advanced Organic Chemistry CHM 338 next year and asks you about the course.
Write equations to show how nitronium ions might be formed using a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids.
Over the years the two isomers of azobenzene have been designated by various terms: cis-trans, syn-anti, and E-Z.
Suggest a suitable mechanism for the reaction of 9-fIuorenone with 2,4- dinitrophenylhydrazine to form the corresponding 2 ,4-d initrophenylhyd razone.
Which of the following reagents can be used to convert cyclopentanol to cyclopentane?
How about when you add 6 M HCL to ths same mixture? What would occur? How would the anion of salicylic acid react with the acid?
In the experimental procedure, trans-4-methoxycinnamic acid, cesium carbonate, and iodoethane are reacted in DMF solvent with nitrogen gas.
The reactants are trans-chalcone and ethyl acetoacetate (in ethanol and NaOH). This creates 6-ethoxycarbonyl-3,5-diphenyl-2-cyclohexenone.
Identify four moisture-protected reaction apparatus. I have identified 2 apparatus (Moisture-protected Claisen head with 3 or 5mL conical vial.
Draw the structures of salicylic acid and aspirin. Circle and identify the functional groups present in each compound.
What would be the balanced neutralization/equilibrium equations for each of these acids in water plus sodium carbonate?
Dissolve the acetanilide into glacial acetic acid. Add dropwise sulfuric and nitric acid. This forms p-nitroacetanilide.
Write equations for what happens when aluminum chloride is hydrolyzed in water. Do the same for acetyl chloride.
A solution of sodium bromide is added to an acidified solution of potassium bromate. Write and balance the reduction half-reaction for mass and charge.
It is assumed that without any chemical adulteration that sufficient heat will cause these organic acids to convert to formaldehyde.
Without stratospheric ozone (O3), harmful solar radiation would cause gene alterations. Ozone forms when O2 breaks and each O atom reacts.
Fatty acids are long-chain carboxylic acids, usually of 12 or more carbon atoms, isolated from saponification of fats and oils.
What product(s) would you expect to form when tetrahydrofuran is treated with excess hydroiodic acid (HI)?
Differentiate between strong and weak acids and bases and calculate the ion concentrations for weak acids and bases given an equilibrium constant.