Isomerism

Explain how titanium is extracted :

• titanium carbide forms which is brittle
• batch process
• high temperatures

Carbon is not used :

• when heated with titanium, don’t get pure metal you need

Continuous or batch process :

• batch process

The conditions :

• heated at 1000°C

—> 2 or more compounds that have same molecular formula but are arranged differently

—> compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formulae / arrangement of atoms

1. Positional Isomers
2. Functional Isomers
3. Chain Isomers

• same functional group
• same stem and suffix
• same molecular formula
• position of functional group changes

• same molecular formula
• atoms are arranged to give different functional groups in space
• suffix changes

• same molecular formula
• stem changes
• different structures of the carbon skeleton in space