Ch.11

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Front (Question)

What is oxidation?

Back (Answer)

Addition of O or O2, loss of H2, Addition of X2

Front (Question)

What is reduction?

Back (Answer)

Addition of H2 or H-, Loss of O or O2, loss of X2

Front (Question)

What alcohols don’t get oxidized with chromic acid? When does oxidation take place?

Back (Answer)

Tertiary alcohols don’t get oxidized Oxidation will only take place when carbon-carbon bonds are broken

Front (Question)

Pyridinium Chlorochroate (PCC)

Back (Answer)

Poisioned, slow reaction

Front (Question)

2º alcohol to a ketone, chromium and chromium-free

Back (Answer)

Chromium: chromic acid or PCC Chromium-free: NaOCl, Swern, DMP

Front (Question)

1º alcohol to aldehyde

Back (Answer)

Chromium: PCC Chromium-free: Swern, DMP

Front (Question)

1º alcohol to carboxylic acid

Back (Answer)

Chromium: chromic acid Chromium-free: NaOCl

Front (Question)

When does an alcohol react as a nucleophile?

Back (Answer)

When the O-H bond breaks

Front (Question)

When does an alcohol react as an electrophile?

Back (Answer)

When the C O bond breaks

#10

Front (Question)

Tosylate Ester

Back (Answer)

An ester of an alcohol with p-toluenesulfonic acid; great leaving group, can undergo both substitution and elimination

#11

Front (Question)

What Nucleophiles work with the addition fo Ts

Back (Answer)

-OH, -CN, Br-, R’O-, NH3, LiAlH4

#12

Front (Question)

How can you achieve the reduction of alchols

Back (Answer)

With two steps and Ts

#13

Front (Question)

With HBR/H20 which alchols go by SN2 and which go by SN1

Back (Answer)

SN2: primary SN1: secondary and tertiary

#14

Front (Question)

What is the lucas reagent

Back (Answer)

HCl/ZnCl2

#15

Front (Question)

How does the Lucas Reagent react with primary, secondary, and tertiary reagents

Back (Answer)

SN1 with tertiary and secondary SN2 with primary

#16

Front (Question)

What is the lucas test

Back (Answer)

a test used to determine whether an alcohol is primary, secondary, or tertiary. <1 min tertiary 1-5 min secondary >6 min primary

#17

Front (Question)

When do phosphorus halides have good yields

Back (Answer)

With primary and secondary alcohols

#18

Front (Question)

What phosphorus haldies react with chloride (primary, secondary, tertiary)

Back (Answer)

Primary: SOCl2 Secondary SOCl2 Tertiary: HCl

#19

Front (Question)

What phosphorus haldies react with bromide (primary, secondary, tertiary)

Back (Answer)

Primary: PBr3 or HBR Secondary: PBr3 Tertiary: HBr

#20

Front (Question)

What phosphorus haldies react with Iodide (primary, secondary, tertiary)

Back (Answer)

Primary: P/I2 Secondary P/I2 Tertiary: HI

#21

Front (Question)

What does thionyl chloride do

Back (Answer)

Converts alcohols into the corresponding alkyl chlorides

#22

Front (Question)

In alcohol dehydration, what does H2SO4 produce

Back (Answer)

alkenes

#23

Front (Question)

What temperature and mechanism does the dehydration of alcohols occur?

Back (Answer)

High temperature (180 and above) E1 Mechanism

#24

Front (Question)

What is the rate-limiting step in the dehydration reactions of alcohols

Back (Answer)

the formation of the carbocation