Alkanes and Halogenoalkanes Part 2

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Which gas leads to acid rain? (most commonly)
Sulphur dioxide
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Which gases react in a catalytic converter to form less harmful products?
carbon monoxide and nitrous oxides
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What are reactions started by ultraviolet light called?
photochemical reactions
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what is a free radical?
a particle with an unpaired electron
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what is the reaction called when free radicals are produced?
initiation reaction
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what products would be formed if a chlorine radical attacks a methane molecule?
a hydrogen chloride molecule and a methyl radical
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What is the main concern with CFCs?
They are destroying the ozone layer
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What is a alternative to CFC's with no chlorine?
HFC's- Hydrofluorocarbons
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Why do CFC's reach high into the atmosphere when chlorine gas doesn't?
They are unreactive
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What is formed when halogenoalkanes react with hydroxides?
alcohols
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What is formed when halogenoalkanes react with cyanide?
nitriles
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What is formed when halogenoalkanes react with ammonia?
amines
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What does 'under reflux' mean?
you increase the temperature of an organic reaction without losing volatile solvents, reactants or products
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what reaction does aqueous conditions favour?
nucleophilic subsitution
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what reaction does anhydrous conditions favour?
nucleophilic elimination
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what affects the difference in rate of reaction between fluoroalkanes and nucleophiles in comparison to iodoalkanes and nuclephiles?
the strength of the C-halogen bond
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Bromoethane reacts with KOH in aqueous conditions to form CH2=CH2?
False
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