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Reinforcement
Chapter 2
Practice with Organic Reactions
BLM 2-2

Goal To practice predicting the products of organic reactions.

Procedure 1. Draw a concept map showing how alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic
acids are related by oxidation and reduction.

Oxidation
Oxidation
Reduction
Aldehyde
Primary alcohol Carboxylic acid
Reduction
Oxidation
SecondaryKetone
alcohol
Reduction

tertiary alcohol

2. Name and draw the products of each reaction.

(a) 1-propanol + hydrobromic acid →

(b) 1-pentanol
H2SO4 


H2SO4 
(c) N-propylmethanamide + water 

(d) 3-methyl-2-octene + hydrochloric acid →

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3. Name the product produced by the oxidation of each compound.

(a)
1. 2-ethylpentanal
2. 2-hexanone
3. butanoic acid

(b) ]

(c)

4. Name the product produced by the reduction of each compound.

(a) 1. 3-heptanol
2. 2-methyl-1-butanol
3. 2,3-dimethylcyclohexanol

(b)

(c)

5. Name and draw the organic product of the condensation reaction of

1-pentanol and methanoic acid.

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