Chapter 7

1. What is vital force theory. How it was rejected?

2. Define catenation and homologous series.
3. Organic reactions are slow. Why?
4. How wood is converted to coal?
5. What is natural gas? Give its uses.
6. What is carbonization?
7. Define petroleum? Name different fractions of petroleum.
8. Define cracking. Name its types.
9. What is catalytic and thermal cracking? Give their products.
10. Give importance of cracking.
11. Define reforming. Give example.
12. What is octane number? How it can be improved?
13. Differentiate homocyclic and heterocyclic compounds.
14. What are alicyclic compounds? Give examples.
15. What are heterocyclic compounds? Give any four examples.
16. Define functional group. Give any four functional groups containing nitrogen.
17. Define isomerism. Give chain isomers of butane and pentane.
18. What is chain isomerism. Give examples.
19. Define functional group isomerism. Give examples.
20. Define metamerism. Give examples.
21. Define position isomerism. Give examples.
22. Why there is restricted rotation around a double bond?
23. 1-butene does not show geometrical isomerism while 2-butene does. Why?
24. How valence shell electrons of carbon are excited?
25. What are cis trans isomers?give examples.
Long answer questions.
1. Define and explain cracking with suitable examples.
2. Define and explain reforming to improve octane number of gasoline.
3. How organic compounds are classified?
4. Define hybridization. Explain structures of methan, ethene and ethyne on basis of
hybridization.
5. Define isomerism. Explain various types of structural isomerism.