Assignment:
Q1) When organic acids are subjected to continuing increases in temperature, and depending on the acid itself, is it reasonable to assume that organic acids convert first to aldehydes, then to alcohols, then to alkanes given increasing temperature? It is also a fair assumption that condensing of these compounds would occur in the inverse order?
Q2) What exactly is an alkane and alkene?
Q3) What is an ester? Does it relate to anything above?
Q4) How is a ketone derived or result?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.