Alkenes
SN1 or SN2
Elimination
Addition
Potpourri
100
I react with strong halogen acids (HX) in inert solvents to give alkyl halides.
What are alkenes?
100
As a SN2 reaction I always undergo this type of inversion.
What is walden (inversion)?
100
In elimination reactions, the most highly substituted alkene product is the major product.
What is Zaitsev's Rule?
100
Mercury (II) catalyzed addition of water to give alcohols.
What is alkoxymercuration demercuration?
100
A parent name ending in -yne.
What are alkynes?
200
I formed as a result of water in a dilute acid reacting with an alkene.
What are alcohols
200
slightly more inversion than retention at the center undergoing substitution.
What is SN1?
200
Geometric arrangement that is required for all E2 processes to occur.
What is anti periplanar (coplanar)?
200
Is the type of addition that occurs in hydrogenation in the presence of a precious metal catalyst.
What is syn addition?
200
Molecules possessing non-superimposable mirror images.
What are enantiomers?
300
Carbon-carbon single bonds tend to be __________ and __________ than carbon-carbon double bonds.
What are shorter and weaker?
300
The type of reaction that occurs with a secondary reaction in an aprotic polar solvent?
What is SN2?
300
a reaction that utilizes a transition state.
What is E2?
300
Use of a peroxide and dilute organoacid leads to the production of this type of addition. The one that is not more substituted.
What is anti markovnikov?
300
Molecules differing only about there sigma bond.
What are conformers?
400
The name of the molecule shown below: CH2═CHCH2CH2CH2CH3
What is 1- hexene (hex-1-ene)?
400
The name of the SN1 reaction that occurs when methanol is heated.
What is solvolysis?
400
Use of diisopropyl amine leads to the formation of this product.
What is the Hoffman product?
400
Intermediates thought to occur in the mechanism by which alkenes are hydrated in the presence of acid.
What is a carbocation?
400
Atoms with 120 degree bond angles possessing an empty p orbital.
What are sp2 hybrids?
500
The number of elements of unsaturation in the molecule with a molecular formula of C6H6Cl6
What is one?
500
Attacking a carbon in the guise of a lewis base.
What is a nucleophile?
500
The number of distinct alkene products results when 1-bromo-1-ethylcyclopenatne is treated with NaOCH3?
What is two?
500
The mechanism for the acid-catalyzed hydration of alkenes is simply the reverse of the mechanism by which alcohols are dehydrated using concentrated acid. This is an illustration of the principle of __________.
microscopic reversibility
500
Breaking of a bond leading to the formation of two ions.
What is Heterolytic cleavage?
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