AM I AROMATIC?

Activity # 1

Study the following structures and encircle the word/number that corresponds
to your answer in each number.

1.
Am I cyclic? (Yes / No)

2.
a. Am I cyclic? (Yes / No )
b. Do I have alternating double and single bonds? (Yes / No)
c. Are all of my carbon atoms sp2 hybridized ? (Yes / No )
d. How many pi bonds do I have? (1; 2; 3; 4)
e. How many pi electrons do I have (1; 2; 3; 4)
3.
a. Am I cyclic? (Yes / No )
b. Do I have alternating double and single bonds? (Yes / No)
c. Are all of my carbon atoms sp2 hybridized ? (Yes / No )
d. How many pi bonds do I have? (1; 2; 3; 4)
e. How many pi electrons do I have (1; 2; 3; 4)

Prepared by:

ALLYNN A. JUNIO
Teacher III, Science
 “Make My Structure Baby”
Activity # 1

Direction: Using the locally gathered materials, create the structures of aromatic
compounds using the sentences given below as hints or clues.

1. I am a six-carbon atom ring with six pi electrons that are free to delocalize. I
am conjugated; planar that is why sp3 is out of sight.
In my first and third carbon, substituents methyl are holding tight.

2. I am made up of two rings fused together. Planar, fully conjugated, and sp2
hybridized. I have 10 pi electrons freely moving around my carbons to
delocalize. Chemists call me naphthalene but to your mom, simply a
mothball is my name.

3. I am cyclic, planar, sp2 hybridized, and fully conjugated, with 3 pi bonds

moving around my six-carbon rings. My common name is toluene but in
IUPAC naming, my parent name is benzene with an alkyl group that was
formed when hydrogen is remove from methane.

4. Each of my carbon atoms is sp2 hybridized. In addition, I am cyclic,

conjugated, and planar. But I am sad to say that I only have 4 sigma and 2
pi bonds which makes me unstable all throughout my life.

Prepared by:

ALLYNN A. JUNIO
Teacher III, Science