4 Core organic chemistry

Practice questions on Core organic chemistry

• Natural gas is mostly methane, a hydrocarbon. Propane is another hydrocarbon used as a fue… (5 marks, Explain)
• A student is trying to identify two unknown liquids. One liquid is a haloalkane and the ot… (5 marks, Explain)
• A student investigates two hydrocarbons: ethane and ethene. Ethene is an unsaturated hydro… (5 marks, Explain)
• Methanol, ethanol and propanol are all members of the alcohol homologous series. A chemist… (5 marks, Explain)
• Propan-1-ol can be converted into 1-chloropropane, a haloalkane, in a substitution reactio… (5 marks, Explain)
• Ethanol is a member of the alcohol family of compounds. Explain what happens when a small … (5 marks, Explain)
• Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons. It is separated into fractions by fractional disti… (5 marks, Explain)
• Candle wax is a mixture of hydrocarbons. When a candle burns completely in a good supply o… (5 marks, Explain)
• A forensic scientist is analysing an unknown organic liquid found at a crime scene. The sc… (5 marks, Describe)