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The chemistry of carbon compounds is so important that it forms a separate branch of chemistry. A great variety of carbon compounds is possible because carbon atoms can form chains and rings linked by C-C bonds. This branch of chemistry gets its name from the fact that the main sources of organic compounds are living, or once-living materials from plants and animals. These sources include fossil fuels which are a major source of feedstock for the petrochemical industry. Chemists are able to take organic molecules and modify them in many ways to make new and useful materials such as polymers, pharmaceuticals, perfumes and flavourings, dyes and detergents
You should be able to:
Describe the composition of crude oil.
Describe how to separate crude oil into fractions in a school laboratory.
State the names and give the displayed formula for the first four alkanes.
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Name the different fractions from crude oil and give a use of each.
Classify hydrocarbon structures as chains (straight and branched) and rings.
Describe how the trend in colour, viscosity, flammability, and boiling point changes as the length of the hydrocarbon chain changes.
Explain in detail how fractional distillation works.
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Give the word equations for complete and incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.
Explain the differences between complete and incomplete combustion.
Explain how to test for the products of complete combustion.
Balance symbol equations for the combustion of hydrocarbons.
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Describe the process of cracking, including the conditions used.
Give the word and balanced symbol equations for cracking.
Describe and explain how bromine water is used to test for an alkene.
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You should be able to:
Name the first four alkenes.
Describe how alkenes react in air
Use diagrams to show the displayed structural formulae of these alkenes and the products of their reactions with:
Hydrogen
Halogens
Steam
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Recognise the functional group in an alcohol, carboxylic acid, and an ester.
Draw the displayed formula for the first four primary alcohols and the first four carboxylic acids.
Draw the displayed formula for ethyl ethanoate.
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You should be able to:
List some chemical properties of carboxylic acids
Describe an ester and state some uses of these compounds
Use word equations to describe the reactions of carboxylic acids with metal carbonates and with alcohols.
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Define the terms monomer and polymer.
Draw the structure of a monomer (or addition polymer) when the structure of the polymer (or monomer) is given.
Describe the process of condensation polymerisation.
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Describe the relationship between naturally occurring monomers and their polymers.
Describe the structure of an amino acid
Describe the main structure of DNA.
Explain the importance of DNA.
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