Hydrocarbons, Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
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Topics from Hydrocarbons, Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
- General methods of preparation, properties and reactions, Nature of C-X bond, Mechanisms of substitution reactions (67 concepts)
- Uses: Environmental effects of chloroform, iodoform freons and DDT (5 concepts)
- general methods of preparation, properties and reactions. (9 concepts)
- Alkanes - Conformations: Sawhorse and Newman projections (of ethane); Mechanism of halogenation of alkanes (6 concepts)
- Alkenes - Geometrical isomerism; Mechanism of clcctrophilic addition: addition of hydrogen, halogens, water, hydrogen halides (13 concepts)
- Alkynes - Acidic character; Addition of hydrogen, halogens, water and hydrogen halides; Polymerization (5 concepts)
- Aromatic hydrocarbons - Nomenclature, benzene -structure and aromaticity (1 concepts)
- Mechanism of electrophilic substitution: halogenation, nitration, Friedel - Craft alkylation and acylation (1 concepts)