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100

This class of organic compound contains nitrogen. 

(1) aldehyde 

(2) alcohol 

(3) amine 

(4) ether 



What is Amine?

Tip: You can think of the N in amiNe as Nitrogen!

100

This formula represents an alkane.

(1) C2H2

(2) C2H4

(3) C3H4

(4) C3H8


What is C3H?



100

Soap is made through this reaction, which involves breaking fats with a base.

What is saponification?

100

A molecule of any organic compound contains at least one atom of this element.


What is carbon?

100

This is the molecular formula for the following structure.

What is C4H8O?

Count how many carbons, hydrogens, and oxygens.

200

This compound is classified as an ether.

(1) CH3CHO

(2) CH3OCH3

(3) CH3COCH3

(4) CH3COOCH3


What is CH3OCH3 ?

200

This formula represents a saturated hydrocarbon.

(1) butane

(2) ethene

(3) heptene

(4) pentyne


What is (1) butane?

Remember: 

- Only alkanes are saturated!

-  Alkenes & Alkynes are unsaturated.

200

The reaction between an alcohol and an organic acid produces this class of compound.

What is esterification?

200

What is (3) 2, 3- dimethylpentane?

200

This is the empirical formula for the following structure.


The molecular formula is C4H8O2.

The empirical formula is C2H4O1.

300

These two compounds, an alcohol and an ether, have the formula C₂H₆O but differ in this way.

(1) the same functional group and the same physical and chemical properties

(2) the same functional group and different physical and chemical properties

(3) different functional group and same physical and chemical properties

(4) different functional group and different physical and chemical properties


What are (4) different functional groups and different physical and chemical properties?

300

The molecular formula C₃H₄ represents this type of hydrocarbon with at least one triple bond.

What is an alkyne?

300

This reaction involves one atom replacing another in a hydrocarbon.

What is a substitution reaction?

300

Draw the structural formula for 2-butene.

Structural formula for 2-butene:

300

This element is present in ethyl ethanoate and makes it an organic compound.

What is carbon?

Remember: Organic compounds ALWAYS contain carbon. 

400

Butanal, butanone, and diethyl ether have different properties because they differ in this molecular characteristic.

(1) numbers of carbon atoms

(2) numbers of oxygen atoms

(3) types of functional groups

(4) types of radioactive isotopes


What are (3) types of functional groups?

400

This element can form ring, chain, and network structures, making it the backbone of organic chemistry.

What is carbon?

400

What type of reaction is represented by this equation?

What is Substitution?

400

What is (2) ethyl

400

Identify the class of organic compounds to which the product of equation 1 belongs.

What is polymerization?

Polymerization: little things add up to become something greater!

500

This is the name given to the class of organic compounds to which ethyl ethanoate belongs.

What is an ester?

500

These compounds have the same molecular formula but different structural formulas.

What are isomers?

500

Explain, in terms of chemical bonds, why the hydrocarbon in Equation 1 is unsaturated.

Ethene, C2H4, is an alkene. Alkenes have double bonds and are unsaturated. 

500

This compound is an isomer of C2H5OC2H5.

(1) CH3COOH

(2) C2H5COOCH3

(3) C3H7COCH3

(4) C4H9OH


What is (4) C4H9OH.

Remember: Isomers are molecules with the same molecular formula but different structures!

(Same amount, just looks different)

500


Draw a structural formula for the product of equation 1.

1,2- dichloroethane


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