NEW ALWUROOD INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL -

JEDDAH, KSA

REVISION EXAMINATION-I
Subject: CHEMISTRY
Date: Duration: 2 Hrs.
Class: XII Max. Marks: 50

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
 All questions are compulsory.
 Question no’s 1 to 4 are very short answer questions and carry 1 mark each.
 Question no’s 5 to 9 are short answer questions and carry 2 marks each.
 Question no’s 10 to 16 are short answer questions and carry 3 marks each.
 Question number 17 to 19 long answer questions and carry 5 marks each

NOTE: Choices given here in each section are based on CBSE sample paper -2019

I.VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:

1. What happens when bromine reacts with CH3-C≡CH?
OR
Chloroform is stored in closed dark colored bottles completely filled so that
Air is kept out. Give reason.
2. Write IUPAC names of the following compounds
a) CH3-O-CH2-CH-CH3 b) (CH3)2C=CHCOCH3
OH
3. Name the aldehyde which does not give Fehling’s solution test.
4. write Etard reaction.
OR
Arrange the following compounds in an increasing order of their acid strengths:
(CH3)2CHCOOH, CH3CH(Br)CH2COOH, CH3CH2CH(Br)COOH
II. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:
5. Give simple chemical tests to distinguish between the following pairs
Of compounds.
a) Phenol and benzoic acid b) Acetophenone and benzophenone
6. Write the mechanism of hydration of ethene to ethanol.

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Write the equations involved in the following reactions:
i) Hydroboration oxidation ii) Riemer-Tiemann reaction
7. How will you bring about following conversions:
a) Chlorobenzene to phenol b) Aniline to iodobenzene
OR
a) Ethanol to Ethyl iodide b) Prop-1-ene to Propanenitrile
8. A hydro carbon C5H10 does not react with chlorine but gives a single monochloro
Compound, C5H9Cl in bright sunlight. Identify the hydrocarbon.
9. Write the reagents required in the following reactions:
i) CH2=CH-CH2-OH ? CH2=CH-CHO
ii) C6H5-CH2-CH3 ? C6H5-COO-K+

III. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:

10.Answer the following :
(i) Haloalkanes easily dissolve in organic solvents, why?
(ii) What is known as a racemic mixture? Give an example.
(iii) Of the two bromoderivatives, C6H5CH(CH3)Br and C6H5CH(C6H5) Br,
which one is more reactive in SN1 substitution reaction and why?
OR
(i) State one use each of DDT and iodoform.
(ii) Which compound in the following couples will react faster in SN2 displacement
and why?
(a) 1-Bromopentane or 2-bromopentane
(b) 1-Bromo-2-methylbutane or 2-bromo-2-methylbutane.
11. Although phenoxide ion has more number of resonating structures than
Carboxylate ion, carboxylic acid is stronger acid than phenol. Why?
12. Describe the following:
a) Cross aldol condensation b) cannizaro reaction
OR
Draw structures of the following derivatives:
a) The methyl hemi acetal of formaldehyde b) The ethylene ketal of hexan-3-one
c) Cyclopropanone oxime d)The semicarbazone of cyclobutnone
13. Write mechanism of the reaction of HI with methoxy methane.
14. How are the following conversions carried out?
a) Benzyl chloride to Benzyl alcohol
b)Methyl magnesium bromide to 2-Methylpropan-2-ol
c) Cumene to phenol.
15. How will you prepare the following compounds starting with benzene?

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 (i) Benzaldehyde (ii) Acetophenone iii) Benzoquinone
OR
Give chemical tests to distinguish between the following pairs of compounds:
(i) Ethanal and Propanal (ii) Benzaldehyde and Acetophenone
(iii) Ethanol and Ethanoic acid
16. Explain the mechanism of Nucleophilic addition reactions.
OR

V. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS:

17. a) Arrange the following in the increasing order of property indicated :
(i) Bromomethane, chloromethane, dichloromethane (Increasing order of
boiling points).
(ii) 1-chloropropane, isopropyl chloride, 1-chlorobutane (Increasing order of
boiling points)
b)

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 (OR)
Answer the following:
a) How would you differentiate between SN1 and SN2 mechanisms of substitution
reactions? Give one example of each.
b) (i) Swartz reaction (ii) Finkelstein reaction
18. (a) How will you bring about the following conversions?
(i) Ethanol to acetone (ii) Benzene to acetophenone
(iii) Benzoic acid to benzaldehyde
(b) Describe the following giving a suitable example in each case:
(i) Decarboxylation (ii) HVZ reaction.
OR
a) An organic compound contains 69.77% carbon, 11.63% hydrogen and the rest is
oxygen. The molecular mass of the compound is 86. It does not reduce Tollens’
reagent but forms an addition compound with sodium hydrogen sulphite and gives
positive iodoform test. On vigorous oxidation it gives ethanoic and propanoic acids.
Deduce the possible structure of the organic compound.
(b) State reasons for the following:
(i) Monochloroethanoic acid has a higher pKa value than dichloroethanoic acid.
(ii) Ethanoic acid is a weaker acid than benzoic acid.
19. Define the following terms:
i) Ambident nucleophile ii) Chiral carbon iii) Racemisation
iv) Retention v) Stereo isomerism
OR
Explain the classification of halogen compounds based on hybridization of
carbon atom.

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