LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – CHEMISTRY
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SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
CH 2502 – HYDROCARBONS AND STEREOCHEMISTRY
Date : 23/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
Answer ALL the questions (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
- Define homolytic cleavage with an example.
- Explain why nitromethane is soluble and nitrobenzene is insoluble in NaOH.
- How would you covert n-butane into isobutane?
- Arrange the following alkanes in the increasing order of their boiling points
n– hexane, n-pentane, 2-methyl pentane.
- Name the products obtained when 2-methyl -2- butene is subjected to ozonolysis.
- Explain why is the chair form of cyclohexane more stable than the boat form.
- Among ortho, meta and para-dichlorobenzenes, which isomer has the highest dipole moment? Why?
- Write down the combustion reaction of benzene.
- Write the E, Z notation of the following compounds.
- Mention any two differences between tautomerism and resonance.
PART – B
Answer any EIGHT questions (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
- What are the requirements for a compound to be aromatic?
- Discuss keto-enol tautomerism with an example.
- Explain Dieckmann’s ring closure reaction.
- Discuss Baeyer’s strain theory of ring compounds.
- Discuss on the relative stability of dienes.
- Explain the Saytzeff’s rule in elimination reactions.
- How is acetylene prepared? How does it react with a) HCN b) Excess of HBr
- c) Acetic acid
- Give the preparation, properties and uses of naphthalene.
- Explain why – OH group is activating and o, p-directing where as -No2 group is deactivating and m-directing.
- Discuss the conformations of n-butane.
- What are geometrical isomers? How do the two isomers differ in their physical and chemical properties?
- What are conformers? How many conformers are possible for ethane? Comment on their relative stabilities.
PART – C
Answer any FOUR questions (4 x 10 = 40 marks)
- a) Compare the basicities of 1o, 2o and 3o amines with that of NH3. Give reason. (6)
- b) Arrange primary, secondary and tertiary carbocations in the increasing order of their
stabilities and explain. (4)
- a) How are alkanes prepared by Wurtz and House – Corey methods? (4)
- b) How are the following conversions effected? (6)
- n-hexane into benzene
- methane into nitromethane
- propene into n-propyl bromide
- Ethylene into ethylene glycol.
- Write notes on the following:
- Markownikoff’s rule
- Allylic bromination by NBS
- Hydroboration
- Diels – Alder reaction
- a) How is benzene prepared and purified in the laboratory? (6)
- b) Starting form benzene how are the following compounds prepared?
- i) Acetophenone
- ii) 1,3,5-Trinitrobenzene (4)
- Explain the following with examples
- Addition polymerization (3)
- Zeigler – Natta polymerization (4)
- Dehydrohalogenation (3)
- Discuss on the conformers of disubstituted cyclohexane and explain 1,2 and 1,3 interactions.
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