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Section A- MCQs
1) When bromine reacts with propene in an organic solvent at room temperature, what is the
mechanism by which the bromine attacks the propene?
A) electrophilic addition
B) electrophilic substitution
C) nucleophilic addition
D) nucleophilic substitution
2) In which of the following reactions is the inorganic reagent acting as a nucleophile?
A) C6H6 + HNO3 C6H5NO2 + H2O
B) CH3CH=CH2 + Br2 CH3CHBrCH2Br
C) CH3CH2NH2 + HCl CH3CH2NH3+ClD) CH3CH2Br + NaOH CH2CH2OH + NaBr
3) Ethene reacts with aqueous bromine to give two products, CH2BrCH2Br and CH2BrCH2OH.
Which statement is correct for these products?
A) Both products are obtained in this reaction by electrophilic substitution.
B) Both products are obtained in this reaction by nucleophilic addition.
C) Both products can be hydrolysed to form the same diol
D) Both products can form hydrogen bonds with water.
4) When bromoethane is hydrolysed by aqueous sodium hydroxide, which ion brings about the
first stage of the substitution?
A) the electrophilic Na+
B) the nucleophile Na+
C) the electrophile OHD) the nucleophile OH5) Chlorofluoroalkanes undergo hemolytic fission by ultraviolet irradiation in the stratosphere.
Which radical could result from this irradiation of CHFClCF2Cl?
A) CHFClCFCl
B) CHClCF2Cl
C) CHFCF2Cl
D) CFClF2Cl
6) An account in a students notebook read:
An excess of aqueous bromine was added to aqueous phenol in a test-tube. 2,4,6Tribromophenol was produced as a creamy-white precipitate suspended in a yellow alkaline
solution.
Which statement in this account must have been incorrect?
A) The precipitate is not 2,4,6-trichlorophenol, but a mixture of 2- and 4-bromophenol.
B) The precipitate obtained is not creamy-white, but yellow.
C) The resultant solution is not alkaline, but acidic
D) The resultant solution is not yellow, but purple.
Note from Mr. Simon: This is one of those analytical questions that we spoke so highly of.
7) Which inorganic reagent may be used to distinguish between phenol and methanol?
A) alkaline aqueous I2
B) aqueous NaHCO3
C) K2Cr2O7 in dilute H2SO4
D) Na
8) The following compound can be used as a photographic developer.
What reaction does it give?
A) It forms a dye when mixed with phenylamine.
B) It gives an orange precipitate with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine
C) It forms a salt with aqueous sodium hydroxide.
D) It is oxidised to
9) In which of these processes is at least one product a gas at room temperature and pressure?
A) dehydration of ethanol
B) esterification of ethanoic acid by ethanol
+
2C) oxidation of ethanol by H /Cr2O7
D) substitution of ethanol by hydrogen bromine
10) Which one of the following compounds will give a precipitate of tri-iodomethane (iodoform)
when reacted with iodine and aqueous sodium hydroxide?
A) C6H5CHO
B) (CH3)3COH
C) CH3CO2H
D) CH3CH2CH(OH)CH3
11) Which of the following reagent will give similar results for both butanone and butanal?
A) acidified aqueous potassium dichromate(VI)
B) an alkaline solution containing complexed Cu2+ ions (Fehlings solution)
C) an aqueous solution containing Ag(NH3)2+ (Tollens reagent)
D) 2,4- dinitrophenylhydrazine reagent
12) Why does hydrogen cyanide add to propanone but not to propene?
A) The addition product formed with propene would not be stable
B) Propanone is more susceptible to nucleophilic attack than propene
C) Propanone is more susceptible to electrophilic attack than propene.
D) Propanone is more susceptible to free radical attack than propene.
13) The product of the reaction between propanone and hydrogen cyanide is hydrolysed under
acidic conditions. What is the formula of the final product?
A) CH3CH(OH)CO2H
B) CH3CH2CH(OH)CO2H
C) CH3CH2CH2CO2H
B) (CH3)2CHCONH2
E) (CH3)2C(OH)CO2H
1)
3)
4)
[6 marks]
6) Phenylamine is a weaker base than ammonia. Explain this in terms of hydrogen bonding.
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[2 marks]
7) A hydrocarbon contains 85.7% carbon and 14.3% hydrogen and has a relative molecular mass
of 56.
a) What is the empirical formula?
b) What is its molecular formula?
c) The hydrocarbon does not decolourises bromine water. What is its structure? [3 marks]
8) A sample of hexane was cracked in a laboratory apparatus. A sample of 50 cm3 of gas was
produced. The gas decolourised 4cm3 of a 0.25 mol dm-3 solution of bromine. What percentage
of alkene was produced?
[3 marks]
9) Distinguish between monomers and repeating units.
[2 marks]
10) Use all the polymers covered in the syllabus and draw both the monomer and repeating unit
of each.
[10 marks]