CARBON AND ITS COMPOUNDS

PRACTICE SHEET
Q.1 A carbon compound P has six carbon atoms and twelve hydrogen atoms.
(a) Is P a saturated or unsaturated carbon compound. Justify your answer by drawing the
structural formula.
(b) Describe a test that can be used to determine if compound P is saturated or unsaturated.
(c) Name the products that are formed on burning compound P in an excess of air

Q.2 A carbon compound P is found to be neutral when tested with red and blue litmus. A
gas, that burns with a 'pop' sound, is produced when a metal reacts with carbon compound
P.
(a) Write the chemical equation for the reaction.
(b) The carbon compound P is heated with concentrated sulphuric acid to produce carbon
compound Q.
(i) Write the chemical equation for the reaction. (ii) Describe the type of flame that Q
produces on combustion.
(c) What is likely to be observed on heating compound P with ethanoic acid with an acid as
catalyst? Write the chemical equation for the reaction

Q.3 An organic compound ‘P’ is a constituent of wines. ‘P’ on reacting with acidified K 2Cr2O7
forms another compound ‘Q’. When a piece of sodium is added to ‘Q’, a gas ‘R’ evolves
which burns with a pop sound when a burning matchstick is brought near it.

a) Give the chemical name of compound P.

b) Mention another use of the compound ‘P’ apart from the use mentioned in the question.
c) Illustrate with the help of chemical equation the conversion of ‘P’ into ‘Q’.
d) Give a balanced equation to depict the reaction of Q with sodium.
e) What happens when ‘P’ is heated with conc. H2SO4 at 443 K, write its chemical equation.
Q.4 An organic compound ‘X’ is a liquid at room temperature. It is also a very good solvent
and has the molecular formula C2 H6 O. Upon oxidation ‘X’ gives ‘Y’. ‘Y’ releases a gas ‘W’
with brisk effervescence on reacting with NaHCO3. X reacts with Y in the presence of
conc.H2SO4 to give another compound ‘Z’ which has a pleasant smell.
a) Give the chemical name and chemical formula of Y
b) How will you test for the gas ‘W’?
c) Depict the formation Y and Z using chemical equations.
d) Name the reaction of formation of ‘Z’.
e) Give any one use of ‘Z’?
Q.5 Prasad has a saturated alcohol X of chemical formula C4H9OH.
(a) Write the chemical formula of a member Y that comes two places after X in the
homologous series and state by how much will its molecular mass differ from that of X.
(b) How do the chemical properties of X compare with those of Y? Give reason for your
answer.
(c) Write the chemical formula of the product Z formed by heating Y with acidified potassium
dichromate. Write the general formula for compounds in the homologous series that Z
belongs to.
Q.6 An unsaturated hydrocarbon P has the chemical formula C4H6.
(a) Write two possible structural formulae for hydrocarbon P.
(b) Write the reaction conditions to convert 1-butanol (CH3 - CH2 - CH2 - CH2OH) to
hydrocarbon P.
(c) Write the general formula for the homologous series of hydrocarbon P.