ASSIGNMENT- 4 TOPIC: DISTINGUISHING TESTS , NAMED REACTIONS AND REAGENTS

I. Give chemical tests to distinguish between the following:

a) Benzoic acid and ethyl benzoate
c) Ethyl amine and aniline
e) Ethanoic acid and phenol
g) Propanone and 3-Pentanone
i) Ethanol and Ethanoic acid
k) Methyl ethanoate and Ethyl ethanoate l) Propanal and propanone
m) Methylamine and dimethylamine
o) Aniline and N-Methylaniline
q) Acetophenone and benzophenone
s) Diethylamine and triethylamine
u) Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde
w) Phenol and cyclohexanol
y) n-butyl alcohol and tert-butyl alcohol
1) Propanone and propanal
3) Phenol and acetic acid
5) Aniline and nitrobenzene
b) Benzaldehyde and acetophenone
d) Ethanal and propanal
f) Acetaldehyde and acetone
h) Propan-1-ol and propan-2-ol
j) Formic acid and acetic acid
n) Phenol and benzoic acid
p) Aniline and benzylamine
r) Pentan-2-one and Pentan-3-one
t) Benzaldehyde and acetone
v) Acetaldehyde and benzaldehyde
x) Ethyl alcohol and benzyl alcohol
z) Ethyl alcohol and phenol
2) Phenol and alcohol
4) Ethyl alcohol and acetic acid

II. Illustrate the following name reactions:

1) Cannizaro’s reaction 2) Sebatier Senderence reaction 3) Rosenmud reduction
4) Fischer esterification 5) Reimer – Tiemann reaction 6) Williamson’s ether synthesis
7) Gattermann’s reaction 8) Sandmeyer’s reaction 9) Hoffmann Bromamide reaction
10) Aldol condensation 11) Diazotisation 12) Hell-Volhard Zelinsky reaction
13) Carbylamine reaction 14) Coupling reaction 15) Haloform(Iodoform) reaction
16) Kolbe’s reaction 17) Cannizaro reaction 18) Friedal Crafts acylation of anisole
19) Decarboxylation 20) Aldol condensation 21) Cross aldol condensation
22) Clemmensen reduction 23) Wolf-Kishner reduction 24) Gabriel phthalimide synthesis
25) Etard reaction 26) Friedal Craft’s alkylation 27) Hunsdiecker reaction
28) Wurtz rection 29) Fittig reaction 30) Wurtz- Fittig reaction
31) Franklands reaction 32) Grove’s process 33) Hydroboration oxidation of alkene
34) Gattermann Koch reaction 35) Fries rearrangement 36) Balz Schiemann reaction
37) Cumene process 38) Kolbe’s electrolysis 39) Mendius reaction
40) Stephen’s reduction 41) Swart’s reaction 42) Ammonolysis of alkyl halide

III. What’s the importance of the following reagents in the organic conversions?
1) Pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC) 2) Alk. KMnO4 3)K2Cr2O7 4) LiAlH4
5) NaBH4 6) Luca’s reagent 7) Lindlar’s catalyst 8) Grignard reagent
9) Hinsberg reagent 10) Tollen’s reagent 11) Fehling’s reagent 12) aq.KOH
13) alc. KOH 14) Soda lime mixture 15) HI/red P 16) Diazomethane CH2N2
17) Cu, 573 K 18) Cl2/ UV light 19) Cl2, anhyd. FeCl3 20) Nitration mixture conc.HNO3, conc.H2SO4
21) CH3Cl, anhyd. AlCl3 22) CH3COCl, anhyd. AlCl3 23) conc H2SO4 ,443 K 24) DIBAL-H
25) Zn – Hg / HCl 26) NH2NH2, KOH/ethylene glycol 27) NaOI 28) dil.NaOH
29) PCl5 30) PCl3 31)SOCl2 32) P2O5, heat