Organic Chemistry 10 Chemistry

Quiz

Alkanes General Formula Description Combustion Reactivity Chemical test Uses C n H 2n+2 Saturated Burns in Oxygen to form CO 2 + H 2 0 (CO with low O 2 ) Low None Fuels

The chlorination of methane Halogenation is the replacement of one or more hydrogens in an organic compound by halogen atoms When methane is reacted with chlorine the products of the reaction depend on whether there is an excess of methane or chlorine If there is an excess of methane it form chloromethane and hydrogen chloride

To do Write down a word equation for the chlorination of methane Can you write a chemical equation? How about a full balanced chemical equation? Movie

Halogenation With an excess of chlorine a mixture of products is formed. Chlorine can obviously replace up to 4 of the hydrogen atoms.

Why halogenation? These products are generally used as intermediate compound for further synthesis

Natural Gas and Oil

Separating the fractions

Fractional distillation Preheated crude oil is pumped into the column (340 C) The vapour in the crude oil rises due to differences in density with different fractions condensing in different regions The liquid part of the crude oil sinks in the column The low density fractions are thin and light coloured, the high density fractions are ‘viscous’ and dark

How does it work? Components separate due to different boiling points Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons Molecules are chemically bonded with strong covalent bonds but contain different numbers of carbon atoms

Go on… The weak attractive forces between the molecules have to be broken if the hydrocarbon is to boil The longer the hydrocarbon molecule is, the stronger the intermolecular forces are The shorter chains are more volatile – they form a vapour

Boiling

Volatility We can smell petrol (gasoline) much easier than we can smell engine oil This is because petrol has 5-10 carbon atoms and engine oil has carbons atoms

Combustion combustion

Viscosity

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Incomplete Combustion