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C14 – Organic Chemistry
At the end of this topic, you should:
CORE
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14.1 Fuels
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Recall coal, natural gas and petroleum as fossil fuels that
produce carbon dioxide on combustion.
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Name methane as the main constituent of natural gas.
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Describe petroleum as a mixture of hydrocarbons and its
separation into useful fractions by fractional distillation.
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State the use of:
Understand the essential
principle of fractional
distillation in terms of
differing boiling points
(ranges) of fractions related
to molecular size and
intermolecular attractive
forces.
 refinery gas for bottled gas for heating and cooking.
 gasoline fraction for fuel (petrol) in cars.
 diesel oil/gas oil for fuel in diesel engines.
14.2 Introduction to organic compounds
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Identify and draw the structures of methane, ethane,
ethene, and ethanol.
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State the type of compound present, given a chemical
name ending in –ane, -ene, and –ol, or a molecular
structure.
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Describe the concept of
homologous series of alkanes
and alkenes as families of
compounds with similar
properties.
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Name, identify and draw the
structure of the unbranched
alkanes and alkenes (not cistrans), containing up to four
carbon atoms per molecule.
14.3 Hydrocarbons
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Describe the properties of alkanes (exemplified by
methane) as being generally unreactive, except in terms of
burning.
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State that the products of complete combustion of
hydrocarbons, exemplified by methane, are carbon dioxide
and water.
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Name cracking as a reaction which produces alkenes.
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Recognise saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
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Describe the manufacture of
alkenes by cracking.
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Describe the addition
reactions of alkenes,
exemplified by ethene, with
bromine, hydrogen, and
steam.
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Describe the formation of
ethanol by the catalytic
addition of steam to ethene.
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Describe macromolecules in
terms of large molecules
built up from small units
(monomers), different
macromolecules having
different units.
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Draw the structure of
poly(ethene).
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Describe the formation of a
simple condensation polymer
exemplified by nylon, the
structure of nylon being
represented as:
 from molecular structures.
 by their reaction with aqueous bromine.
14.4 Alcohols
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State that ethanol may be formed by reaction between
ethene and steam.
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Describe the complete combustion reaction of ethanol.
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State the uses of ethanol as a solvent and as a fuel.
14.5 Macromolecules
14.6 Synthetic polymers
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Describe the formation of poly(ethene) as an example of
addition polymerisation of monomer units.
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14.7 Natural macromolecules
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Describe proteins as
possessing the same (amide)
linkages as nylon but formed
from the linking of amino
acids.
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State that proteins can be
hydrolysed to amino acids
under acid or alkaline
conditions. (Structures and
names are not required).