ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Hydrocarbon Tutorial

1. What are the major difference between butane and butene (answer must refer to bonding,
reactivity and isomerism).

2. Write the mechanism for the reaction of:

a) Propane with chlorine. Give the name of the reaction and the mechanism.
b) Propene with HCl. What is this mechanism and the reaction called?

3. Draw the structures for the following compounds and determine if they can exist as
cis/trans isomers?
a) Propene d) 3-heptene
b) 2-hexene e) 2-methyl-2-butene
c) 3-hexene f) 1,2-dichloroethene

4. Write a balanced equation for reaction between

a) octene and oxygen.
b) octane and oxygen

What is the reaction called?

5. Write equations for the following reactions and state the name of these reactions
a) Pentene with hydrogen iodide
b) Ethane with bromine (in the presence of sunlight)
c) Cyclohexene with hydrogen
d) Ethene with cold potassium permanganate
e) 2-methylbut-2-ene with hot potassium permanganate

6. Draw the structures of the following:

a) Ethylbenzene e) Bromobenzene
b) Nitrobenzene f) Benzoic acid
c) Bezaldehyde g) Aminobenzene
d) Cyclohexane h) Cyclohexene

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 7. What is meant by the term electrophilic aromatic substitution

8. Name the following compounds:

a) b)

c) d)