REASONING QUESTION

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CLASS XII

1. Before nitration aniline is converted into acetanilide
2. Aryl halides can not be prepared by the reaction of phenol with hydrogen halides.
3. Sulphuric acid is not used during the reaction of alcohols with KI.
4. The haloalkanes are only very slightly soluble in water
5. Haloalkanes react with KCN to form alkyl cyanides as main product while AgCN forms isocyanides
as the chief product.
6. Although chlorine is an electron withdrawing group, yet it is ortho-, para- directing in electrophilic
aromatic substitution reactions.
7. The dipole moment of chlorobenzene is lower than that of cyclohexyl chloride.
8. Grignard reagents should be prepared under anhydrous conditions.
9. p-dichlorobenzene has higher melting point than those of o- and m- isomers.
10. COH bond angle in alcohols is slightly less than the tetrahedral angle.
11. The C-O bond length in phenol is slightly less than that in methanol.
12. Tertiary alcohols do not under go oxidation reaction.
13. Ortho and para nitrophenols are more acidic than phenols.
14. Bimolecular dehydration of alcohols is not appropriate for the preparation of ethyl methyl ether.
15. Alkyl aryl ethers when react with HX yields phenol and alkyl halide not aryl halide and alcohol.
16. Propanol has higher boiling point than that of the hydrocarbon, butane.
17. o-nitro phenol is steam volatile while p-nitrophenol is not.
18. o-nitro phenol os more acidic than ortho methoxyphenol
19. Boiling point of ethanol is higher than that of methoxymethane.
20. Carboxylic acids are stronger acids than phenols.
21. Aromatic carboxylic acids do not under go Friedel-Crafts reaction.
22. Cyclohexanone forms cyanohydrin in good yield but 2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexanone does not.
23. There are two –NH2 groups in semicarbazide. However, only one is involved in the formation of
semicarbazones.
24. During the preparation of esters from a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of an acid
catalyst, the water or the ester should be removed as soon as it is formed.
25. Although phenoxide ion has more number of resonating structures than carboxylate ion, carboxylic
acid is a stronger acid than phenol.
26. Anline does not undergo Friedel-Crafts reaction.
27. pKb of aniline is more than that of methylamine.
28. Ethylamine is soluble in water whereas aniline is not.
29. Methylamine in water reacts with ferric chloride to precipitate hydrated ferric oxide.
30. Although amino group is o- and p- directing in aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions, aniline
on nitration gives a substantial amount of m-nitroaniline.
31. Diazonium salts of aromatic amines are more stable than those of aliphatic amines.
32. Gabriel phthalimide synthesis is preferred for synthesizing primary amines.
33. Aromatic primary amines cannot be synthesized by Gabriel phthalimide synthesis.
34. Amines are les acidic than alcohols of comparable molecular masses.
35. Primary amines have higher boiling point than tertiary amines.
36. Aliphatic amines are stronger bases than aromatic amines.
37. Aromatic ammines are less basic than aliphatic ammines.
38. Ammonolysis of alkyl halide does not give corresponding ammines in pure state.
39. If NO2 or COOH groups are attached to a carbon of benzene ring electrophilic substitution becomes
difficult.
40. Haloalkane undergo nucleophilic substitution reaction.
41. Alcohol act as a weak base.
42. Phenol exhibit acidic behavior.
43. Ether possess dipole moment even alkyl groups are identical.
44. Carboxylic acids have high boiling point than alcohols of comparable molecular mass.
45. Aldehydes are more reactive than ketones towards Nucleophilic reagents.
46. Boiling points of ether are lower than isomeric alcohols.
47. Acetic acid is weaker than chloroacetic acids.
48. Electrophilic substitution reaction in benzoic acids takes place at meta-position
49. Alkyl ammines are stronger base than Aryl ammines
50. Like ammonia ammines are good nucleophiles.
51. Toluene is more readily nitrated than benzene
52. Unlike alcohols ,phenols cannot be easily protonated.
53. Why do aldehydre/ketone behave like polar compounds?
54. Haloarenes are insoluble in water but soluble in benzene
55. Formaldehyde gives cannizzaro reaction whereas acetaldehyde not
56. Carboxylic acid do not give the characteristic test of carbonyl group
57. Carbonyl compound shows nucleophillic addition reaction.

IMPORTANT NAME REACTIONS

1. Rosemnund
2. Cannizoro
3. Hoffman bromamide reaction
4. Wolf kishner reduction
5. Kolbes reaction
6. Remer Temann reaction
7. tollens reagent test
8. Aldol condensatron
9. Sandmeyer reaction
10. carbylamine reaction
11. Isocyanide test
12. coupling reaction
13. Friedel craft reaction
14. Fehling test
15. Kharasch effect
16. Dehydration of ethanol
17. Hinsberg test
18. Gabriel synthesis
19. Swarts reaction
20. Wurtz reaction
21. Fitig reaction
22. Wurtz-fitig reaction

ORGANIC CONVERSIONS
1. phenol into salysilic acid
2. chlorobenze to phenol
3. ethene to ethane-1,2-diol
4. phenol to salysilialdehyde
5. tolune to benzaldehyde
6. benzene to acetophenone
7. acetaldehyde to crotonaldehyde
8. Acetic acid to acetone.
9. Aniline to N-phenyl ethanimide
10. Propane to 1- bromopropane.
11. 2-propanol to lodoform.
12. ethene to ethanol.
13. Propene to 2- propanol
14. Aniline to phlorobenzene.
15. 2propanol to 2-propanone.
16. Proponoic acid to 1 propanol
17. Acetophenone to benzoic acid.
18. Acetone to 2 botyl alcohal
19. Aniline to pamoroagobenzene
20. 2-Butonol from ethnol
21. ………..from benzene
22. 2,3 Dimethyl butane from 2 ….propane
23. Benzene to o nitro chlrobenzene
24. Propane from 2 propanol
25. phenol from aniline
26. Benzaldehyde in to acetaphenone
27. Melonic acid in to acetic acid
28. Acetaldehyde in to 2 butenol
29. Glycerol from glyceides
30. 2,4,6 tribromo phenol from phenol
31. Ethanoic acid to propanoic
32. Acetic acid to diethyle anine
33. Nitro benzene to phenol
34. Aniline to benzoic acid
35. Phenol to propophenol
36. Phenol to 2acetoxybenzoic acid
37. Benzoic in in to in nitrochlorobenzene
38. benzene in to P chloronitrobenzene
39. Propanoic acid to acetic acid
40. anisole to ani-nitrosole
41. Proponoic anyhydrate from propynle chloride to sodium propanoate
42. Propanoic antyhydrate from propanoic acid
43. Ethyle aminine to acetic acid
44. Methyle cyanide to acetyle dehyde
45. Aniline into benzalymine
46. Nitrobenzene In to bromochlorobeenzene
47. Benzadehyde in to cyanobenzene
48. Nitrobenzene in to nitrophenol
49. CO2 in to acetic acid
50. Acetaldehyde into lectic acid
51. Dimethyle into diethyle ether
52. Ethyle alcohol in to melonic acid
53. Ethyle alcohol into vinyle acetate

Name Reaction

1. Rosemnund
2. Cannizoro
3. Hoffman bromamide reaction
4. Wolf kishner reduction
5. Kolbes reaction
6. Remer Temann reaction
7. tollens reagent test
8. Aldol condensatron
9. trans esterifraction
10. Sandmeyer reaction
11. carbylamine reaction
 12. Isocyanide test
13. coupling reaction
14. Friedel craft reaction
15. Fehling test
16. Kharasch effect
17. Dehydration of ethanol
18. Hinsberg test
19. Gabriel synthesis
20. Wittig Reaction

Summer vacation assignments Class XII Subject –Chemistry

1. Important name Reactions- Write short notes and learn the following-

Chapter- Halo Alkanes and Halo Arenes Chapter- Aldehydes Ketones and carboxylic Acids
1. Rosenmund reduction
1. Sandmeyer Reaction 2. Stephen reaction
2. Finkelstein reaction 3. Etard reaction
3. Swarts reaction 4. Gatterman – Koch reaction
4. Wurtz reaction 5. Clemmensen reduction
5. Wurtz-Fittig reaction 6. Wolff-Kishner reduction
7. Aldol condensation
6. Fittig reaction
8. Cross aldol condensation
Chapter- Alcohols, phenols and Ethers
9. Cannizzaro reaction
1. Kolbe’s reaction
10. Kolbe electrolysis
2. Reimer-Tiemann reaction
11. Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction.
3. Williamson synthesis
Chapter- Amines
4. Friedel-Crafts alkylation reaction
1. Gabriel phthalimide synthesis
2. Diazotisation.
3. coupling reactions

2. Investigatory project

3. Sodium crystallizes in the cubic lattice and the edge of the unit cell is 430 pm. Calculate the number of atoms
in a unit cell. (atomic mass of Na = 23.0 amu, density of Na = 0.9623 g cm-3 )
4. Metallic gold crystallizes in a FCC lattice and has a density of 19.3 g cm -3. Calculate the radius of gold atom
(atomic mass of gold = 197 amu)
5. An element A crystallizes in fcc structure . 200 g of this element has 4.12 x 10 24 atoms. The density of A is 7.2
g cm-3. Calculate the edge length of the unit cell.
6. Silver forms ccp lattice and X-ray studies of its crystals show that the edge length of its unit cell is 408.6 pm.
Calculate the density of silver. (Atomic mass = 108 u)
7. A compound is formed by two elements M and N. the element N forms ccp and atoms of M occupy 1/3 rd of
tetrahedral voids. What is the formula of the compound?
8. 18 g of glucose ( C6H12O6) is dissolved in 1 kg of water in a solution. At what temperature will the
water boil? Kb for water is 0.52 K kg mol-1.
9. An anti-freeze solution is prepared from 222.6 g of ethylene glycol, C 2H4(OH)2, and 200 g of water.
Calculate the molality of the solution. If the density of the solution is 1.072 g/mL then what shall be
the molarity of the solution?
10. A solution of 3.8 g of sulphur in 100 g CS 2 ( boiling point = 46.30 0C ) boils at 46.66 0C. What is the formula of
sulphur molecule in this solution? (atomic mass of S = 32 amu, and Kb for CS2 = 2.40 K kg mol-1)
11. 1.0 g of a non-volatile solute was dissolved in 100 g of acetone (molar mass = 58 g mol -1) at 298 K. the
vapour pressure of solution was found to be 192.5 mm of Hg. Calculate the molar mass of solute. ( vapour
pressure of pure acetone at 298 K is 195 mm Hg)
12. Osmotic pressure of a solution containing 7 g of dissolved protein per 100 cm 3 of the solution is 20 mm Hg at
310 K. calculate the molar mass of protein. R = 0.082 L atm K-1 mol-1
13. The electrical resistance of a column of 0.05 mol L -1 NaOH solution of diameter 1 cm and length 50 cm is 5.55
x 103 ohm. Calculate its resistivity, conductivity and molar conductivity.
14. The following chemical reaction is occurring in an electrochemical cell.
Mg(s) + 2 Ag+ (0.0001 M) Mg2+ (0.10M) + 2 Ag(s)

The electrode potential values are Mg2+ / Mg = – 2. 36 V , Ag+ / Ag = 0.81 V

For this cell calculate / write
(a) (i) E value for the electrode 2Ag+ / 2Ag
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(ii) Standard cell potential E cell.
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(b) Cell potential (E)cell

(c) (i) Symbolic representation of the above cell.
(ii) Will the above cell reaction be spontaneous?