Alkene Essays

  • The Deplanation Of Phosphonium Alkene

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    Wittig reactions allow the generation of an alkene from the reaction between an aldehyde/ketone and a ylide (derived from phosphonium salt).The mechanism for the synthesis of trans-9-(2-phenylethenyl) anthracene first requires the formation of the phosphonium salt by the addition of triphenylphosphine and alkyl halide. The phosphonium halide is produced through the nucleophilic substitution of 1° and 2° alkyl halides and triphenylphosphine (the nucleophile and weak base) 4 An example is benzyltriphenylphosphonium

  • EXPERIMENT 2

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    of this experiment was to investigate the bromination of trans-cinnamic acid and determine what the isolated products tells us about the possible mechanism. The stereochemistry of the product results from either a syn or anti addition of Br2 to the alkene. Recrystallization using ethanol and water solvent mixture was used to purify the crude product and melting point was implemented in order to see which products were synthesized. The syn addition products (2S, 3S- and 2R, 3R) 2,3-dibromo-3-phenylpropanoic

  • Alkyne Groups

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    The goal of this lab is to exemplify a standard method for making alkyne groups in two main steps: adding bromine to alkene groups, and followed by heating the product with a strong base to eliminate H and Br from C. Then, in order to purify the product obtained, recrystallization method is used with ethanol and water. Lastly, the melting point and IR spectrum are used to determine the purity of diphenylacetylene. This experiment was divided into two main steps. The first step was the addition of

  • E Stilbene Lab Report

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    Discussion: E-stilbene is a molecule molecule consisting of carbon-carbon double bond with a phenyl functional group attached to each carbon on opposite sides of the double bond. Thus, since this molecule is an alkene, the electrophilic addition of bromine causes the bromine to break and add to the carbon carbon double bond. This mechanism essentially can be considered to have two routes, but three different products. One route will use from a three membered ring (cyclic) with a bromine cation

  • LAB Elimination Reactions Tested

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    water molecule results in a secondary carbocation intermediate that continues to form an alkene in an E1 elimination. If the elimination happens with either protons on the terminal methyl group, the resultant product is 1-butene, a Hoffman product (monosubstituted alkene). In contrast, elimination of either β-hydrogens by the conjugate base of sulfuric acid (HSO4---) on the methylene group leads to an alkene that is disubstituted. Either the cis- or trans-2-butene can form depending which hydrogen

  • Beilstein Test Lab Report

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    Purpose: To help students identify the functional groups in a mixture of two compounds by interpreting the IR spectroscopy, measuring the boiling point, comparing the physical and chemical properties of an unknown with a known substance. In addition, students will learn how impurities affect the boiling point and solubility of a substance. Procedure: The student will read the IR spectroscopy of the unknown first. Then perform various tests and measure the boiling point. Beilstein Test The Beilstein

  • Gas Chromatography Lab Report

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    Elizabeth Ochoa | 15492972 Post Lab | 40862 INTRODUCTION Elimination Reactions and Gas Chromatography Reagents undergo different mechanisms when made to react depending on temperature exposure and the type of solvent used. Elimination, substitution, and addition reactions are constantly in competition with each other. However, when these same reagents are made to interact under high temperatures, the products predominantly observed are elimination products. Ultimately, through this experiment different

  • Hydration Of Alkenes Lab Report

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    Hydration of alkenes is the acid-catalyzed addition of water to a carbon-carbon double bond leading to the formation of an alcohol. An equilibrium is established between two competing processes, hydration and the opposite reaction of dehydration. The position of the equilibrium depends on the reaction conditions. These conditions include hydration of a double bond that requires excess water to drive the reaction to completion and dehydration of an alcohol requires water removal in order to complete

  • Difference Between Saturated And Unsaturated Hydrocarbon

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    bromine water without the presence of sunlight while saturated hydrocarbon will decolourise brown bromine water with the aid of sunlight. Variables : • Constant variables : Volume of bromine water • Manipulated variables : Types of alkanes and alkenes •

  • Methylcyclohexene Chemistry Lab Report Gas Chromatography

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    area values are directly correlated with the relative concentrations of each alkene product in the mixture. When the ratio of the two values is calculated, 3-methylcyclohexene being the 2nd peak area value and 1-methylcyclohexene being the 3rd peak area (represented on table 1), (11152:1283) = 8.7 1-methylcyclohexene molecules: 1 3-methylcyclohexene molecule. 3. 0.02 mol observed alkene yield/ 0.048 mol theoretical alkene yield = 0.41(100%) = 41% yield 4. The 1-methylcyclohexene product is the major

  • Elimination Reactions

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    different types of reactions, yet elimination reactions are one of the most common practices to create carbon-carbon π-bonds. Dehydrohalogenation is an example of functional group transformation. In the case of alkyl halides they are transformed into alkenes through dehydrohalogenation (1). The general mechanism for dehydrohalogenation elimination reactions when a strong base is used can be written as: RCHCH_2-X+B:^- → RCH=CH_2+B-H+X:^- [INSERT DRAWING HERE] Bromine is a hazardous chemical that

  • 2-Bromobutane Determination Lab

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    This is because 1-butene is the most highly substituted alkene. This reaction follows Hoffman elimination because when forming the least substituted alkene there is steric hindrance, which is not preferred product. 2-bromobutene also undergoes a similar mechanism as 2-butanol, Hoffman E2 reaction, producing 1-butene as the major product. However since 2-bromobutene

  • Carbon Compounds

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    Carbon Compounds 23.1 What is carbon Compounds?  carbon compounds are far more numerous and varied than compounds formed from other elements  there are millions of different carbon compounds  most are combinations with hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous, and the hologens  some general and physical properties of carbon atoms are :  non electrolytes, or very weak electrolytes  low melting points  compounds made solely from carbon and hydrogen are generally non-polar

  • 2-Bromohexane Lab Report

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    Addition reactions are a common chemical transformation of a carbon-carbon double bound. Carbon-carbon double bonds contain one pi bond, which is held together weakly, and one sigma bond. The weak pi bond of the alkene, like 1-hexene, can be broken if a strong base is added. The electrophile, aka the base, attacks the nucleophile of the molecule. A covalent bond forms between the base and the carbon, which is an exothermic and favorable reaction. In this specific experiment, 1-hexene and HBr were

  • Halogenoalkane Report

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    In experiment 2, we carried out experiment to observe the reaction of halogenoalkanes with aqueous alkali and water which contains dissolved silver nitrate. Halogenoalkanes are alkanes which have one or more hydrogen atoms replaced by halogen atoms such as fluorine(F), chlorine(Cl), bromine(Br) and iodine(I) which are the elements in group VII in periodic table. Halogenoalkanes have the general formula, RX, whereby R is an alkyl or substituted alkyl group and X is any of the halogen atom. Besides

  • Dehydration Lab Report

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    of hydrolysis. Dehydration is an elimination reaction of an alcohol involves the loss of an OH from one carbon and an H from an adjacent carbon. Overall, this amounts to the elimination of a molecule of water, resulting in a pi-bond formation of an alkene or alkyne. In most of the dehydration of alcohol, heat and catalyze are needed in the reaction. Sulphuric acid (H2SO4) and phosphoric acid (H3PO4) are the most commonly used acid catalysts. The dehydration process can be carried out by in two ways

  • 4-Methylcyclohexanol

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    The purpose of an unsaturation test (e.g. bromine test) is to identify compounds with carbon-carbon double bonds or triple bonds – since the desired product involves an alkene (by definition, has carbon-carbon double bonds), an unsaturation test would be a useful method for determining that structure. Infrared spectroscopy is a way to analysis the reactant and the product by creating plots of absorption bands and then using

  • The Dehydration of Cyclohexanol to Form Cyclohexene

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    The Dehydration of Cyclohexanol to Form Cyclohexene In order to dehydrate Cyclohexanol it is required that a dehydration agent, in this case phosphoric acid, be added and for the mixture to be distilled with the Cyclohexene being taken off between 343K and 363K. This reaction gives the formula: In order to keep the experiment at a manageable size 0.1 mole of Cyclohexanol was used along with 4cm3 of concentrated Phosphoric acid. 0.1 mole of Cyclohexanol x 100.2 = 10.2 100.2 0.962

  • Essay On Hydration Of Norbornene

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    Hydration of alkenes is characterized by the addition of water and an acid-catalyst to a carbon-carbon bond leading to an alcohol. Dehydration is exactly the opposite in which dehydration of an alcohol requires water to be removed from the reactant. Equilibrium is established between the two processes when the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction. The alkene that is used in this experiment is norbornene. Through hydration of norbornene, an alcohol group should be present

  • Wittig Reaction Lab Report

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    compound is treated with a ylide which forms a four-member ring called oxaphosphetane. The second step is to make a more stable bond, to achieve this an elimination occurs to form Ph3P=O (triphenylphosphine oxide) and as a result, forms the alkene. The alkene can come as a trans (E) or cis (Z) isomer depending on the stability of Wittig reagents. Stable Wittig reagents are more likely to give a E isomer; meanwhile, if it is unstable that it will give a Z isomer. This type of reaction can be consider