Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Department of Chemistry
End-Semester Examination

Course Name- Green Chemistry and Technology

Course No: CH-426
Date: 25.11.2021 Duration:2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Total Marks: 60

All questions are compulsory. Mark is given in the right hand side of each question. Answer
paper should be written by own handwriting and it has to be submitted in the following
branch-wise mail ID: ecech426@gmail.com, eeech426@gmail.com, chemenggch426@gmail.com
and cstch426@gmail.com including backlog students. Roll numbers 170121033 and 204107018 are
requested to submit their papers at cstch426@gmail.com . Do not forget to write your name and Roll
Number. Make Sure that your answer script is readable properly for evaluation.

1. Who coined the terms ‘Lateral thinking’ and ‘Vertical thinking’? 1.0
2. In which year the Passerini reaction was discovered and what the reactants are required for
this particular reaction? 1.0
3. Who received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his project
“Towards Ending our Dependence on Organic Solvents” and which year? 1.0
4. At what temperature water behaves as acetonitrile solvent? 1.0
5. Mention temperature range at NCW (near critical water). What would be the dielectric
constant of water at 300oC? 1.0
6. What is the supercritical temperature and pressure for carbon dioxide? 1.0
7. From which plants antimalarial drug quinine and anticancer drug taxol are isolated? 1.0
8. Name the drug used for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and neuropathic pain. 1.0
9. Give the mnemonic word of the 12 principles of green analytical chemistry. Write down
in an elaborated form of the 4th alphabet of the word. 1.0
10. What is the full of ionic liquid ([bmim]BF4)? 1.0
11. What is the full form of VBrPO? How is the second generation solid brominating reagent
n-tetrabutyl ammonium tribromide (TBATB) prepared? 1.5
12. Can you write down the major shortcoming of deductive thinking? 1.5

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13. What is called “inverse temperature dependence’ reaction? 1.5
14. Write down 5th Principle of Green Engineering in short and elaborated form. 1.5
15. Define the terms ‘surfactants’ and ‘micelle’. 2.0
16. Friedel-Crafts alkylation give quite poor yields in the superheated water. Why do
scientists then bother exploring these reactions in superheated water? 2.0
17. How many categories are divided the chemical industry products and name them with
suitable examples? 2.0
18. What are plastics, and how do they differ from polymers in general? What is Engineering
Plastic and where are they used? 2.0
19. Write down the four key advantages of carrying out a process under supercritical
conditions. 2.0
20. A chemist reacts benzyl alcohol (10.81 g, 0.10 mol, FW 108.1) with p-toluene sulfonyl
chloride (21.9 g, 0.115 mol, FW 190.65) in toluene (500 g) and trimethylamine (15 g) to
give the sulfonate ester (FW 262.29) isolated in 90% yield (0.09 mol, 23.6 g). Calculate
reaction mass efficiency (RME), mass intensity (MI), and mass productivity (MP). 2.5
21. Can you draw a simplified phase diagram of water? Write down the value for critical
point and triple point of water? 3.0
22. Define ‘in-water’, ‘on-water’, ‘water-promoted’ and ‘in the presence of water’ reaction.
4.0
23. Two reversible gaseous reactions are shown below.

What will happen for both the reactions for shift in equilibrium and response of the
system if the pressure increases or decreases? 4.0
24. Predict the final products for the following reactions. 3 x 1.5 = 4.5

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25. Write down the comparison of principles of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. 5.0
26. Fill in the blank with the appropriate words: 11.0
i) and of already accepted premises may lead to innovation. The green
chemistry movement examined and rejected the premise that protection is the
exclusive way of dealing with the problem of .The protection premise was
. and its substitution with a new premise, that of was innovative. 2.5
ii) Critical thinking is necessary but not a sufficient condition for and
When creativity generates novel possibilities, we need to
evaluate them. 1.0
iii) Complex thinking combines various aspects of thinking, among which are the
following four: , , finally in which
one chooses the best alternatives. 2.0
iv) It was reported that the Passerini reaction performed in dichloromethane at 25 oC
for 18 h gives conversion and an eventual yield. In contrast, the
reaction run in water at the same temperature for 3.5 h gives conversion
and a yield. The reaction in water is approximately times faster
than that in dichloromethane. 2.5
v) Polymerization of vinyl monomers, CH2=CH-X (where X is CH3, Cl, Ph, CN,
etc.) occurs in . This places the X group on carbon
atom along the polymer chain. Upon polymerization, the C-X carbon atom
becomes
. Depending on the position of the X group with respect to the carbon-
carbon backbone, three stereoisomers can be obtained such as , ,
and . 3.0