Sample Questions - Hydrocarbons

1. Write a short note on:

a) Wurtz reaction
b) Kolbe’s electrolysis
c) Aromatization

2. Complete the equations

KMnO4
1) (CH3)3CH
Oxidation

Cr2O3
2) C6H14
773K

3. How will you convert:

a) Bromomethane to ethane
b) Sodium acetate to ethane
c) Hexane to benzene
d) Ethyl chloride to butane

4. Give the chemical equation for the preparation of propane by decarboxylation reaction.

5. Draw cis-trans isomers of hex-2-ene. Which isomer has a higher B.P and why?

6. Draw geometrical isomers of C6H5CH = CHCH3

7. Draw geometrical isomers of 3,4 – Dimethylhex-3-ene

8. Write a short note on:

a) B – elimination reaction.
b) Markovnikov rule
c) Peroxide effect

9. How will you covert:

a) Ethyl alcohol to ethene
b) Propene to 2-Bromopropane

10. An alkene on ozonolysis forms propanal and ethanal. Identify the alkene and write
chemical reaction of the ozonolysis.
11. The reductive ozonolysis of an alkene gave butanone and propanal. Write the structure of
alkene and its IUPAC name.

12. Propanal and Pentan -3-one are the ozonolysis products of an alkene. What is the
structural formula and IUPAC name of alkene?

13. Write the IUPAC names of the products obtained by the ozonolysis of 3,4 –
Dimethylhept-3-ene

14. Addition of HBr to Propene yields 2-Bromopropane. Explain the rule.

What happens when

a) Sodium acetate is heated with Soda lime.
b) Acetylene is passed through red hot iron tube at 873K. Write necessary chemical
equations

15. How will you covert:

a) Propyne to Propane
b) Propyne to propanone
c) Ethyne to benzene

16. Terminal alkynes are acidic in nature. Why?

17. What is cyclic Polymerization of acetylene.

18. Complete the following equations.

H+
a) CH3 – C ≡ CH + H2O
Hg2+
b) CH3CH2Cl + KOH(alc)
KMnO4
c) CH2 = CH2 + H2O + O
red hot iron tube
d) CH ≡ CH
873 K

19. What are the necessary condition for a system to be aromatic?

20. How will you convert:

1) Benzene to cyclohexane
2) Benzene to acetophenone
3) Phenol to nitrobenzene
4) Benzene to Chlorobenzene
5) Benzene to nitrobenzene
21. Write a short note on:
a) Friedel crafts acylation
b) Huckel rule

22. How would you distinguish ethene and ethane?