Chapter #7

Give short answers to following questions.

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

2) Define organic compounds or organic chemistry?

3) Define catenation?

4) What is coal? How it is formed.

5) What is carbonization or Destructive distillation of coal? Give its major products.

6) What is Natural gas. Give its composition.

7) Define petroleum.

8) Why we need of cracking?

9) How does cracking and reforming differ from each other?

10) What is catalytic cracking?

11) Define the term octane number. How is octane number of gasoline improved?

12) What is meant by knocking of petroleum? WRITE names and formulas of two anti-knock agents
used in gasoline.

13) How octane numbers of gasoline can be improved by reforming?

14) What are Alicyclic and Aromatic compounds, give one example of each?

15) What are alicyclic organic compounds? Give two examples.

16) Define heterocyclic compounds with two examples.

17) What are alicyclic compounds? Give examples.

18) Define Aromatic compounds with three examples.

19) Differentiate between Alicyclic and Aromatic compounds.

20) Define functional group and write two oxygen holding functional groups.

21) What is a functional group? Name functional group present in alcohol and ether.

22) What is meant by functional group and functional group isomerism?

23) Where does the energy come to excite the carbon atom in hybridization?

24) Draw the hybridization structure of HCHO (formaldehyde).

25) What are isomers? Write down the isomers of pentane.

26) Define Metamerism, give example.

27) Define the following terms, giving one example for each:

(a) Position isomerism (b) Metamerism

28) Define Geometric Isomerism with a suitable example.

29) 1-Butene does not show is-trans isomerism, but 2-Butene does. Justify this statement.

30) Why is there no free rotation (restricted rotation) around a double bond?

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