Chemistry: Post your doubts here!

[techgeek]

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Part (ii). I was wondering is it acceptable if the reagent is some nitrate salt of a metal more reactive than Mg like KNO3 or NaNO3 so a double displacement reaction takes place.

I don't think it will work because nitric acid is a strong acid which neutralized MgO, on the other hand KNO3 is almost neutral and is moderately soluble in water. I doubt if it'll react at all and of course to be on the safe side, we'd better write what we already came across in our syllabus

 

[Saad the Paki]

I don't think it will work because nitric acid is a strong acid which neutralized MgO, on the other hand KNO3 is almost neutral and is moderately soluble in water. I doubt if it'll react at all and of course to be on the safe side, we'd better write what we already came across in our syllabus

Alrighty then. Thanks

 

[Saad the Paki]

Ik I am asking silly questions but I just want to be on the safe side
The skeletal formula of 2-3 dimethyl but 2 ene and propanone are like this in the ms
This is how I drew them they're fine right?

 

[techgeek]

Ik I am asking silly questions but I just want to be on the safe side
The skeletal formula of 2-3 dimethyl but 2 ene and propanone are like this in the msView attachment 60329
This is how I drew themView attachment 60330 they're fine right?

yep, they are alright! The main thing is The alkene should have a double bond in between, which you drew right, and the number of carbons should be same which is also okay...The ketone also has it's functional group all fine and carbon atoms too. It doesn't matter how much we rotate it, or draw it in which way, because it all means the same (remember, as long as we don't count it as another isomer, it's the same molecule)

 

[princess Anu]

Can someone help
I can't visualise the results of solvent 1 & 2
Why is the answer to part i 4?

 

[Saad the Paki]

Is it fine of I write them as 2 separate reactions because that's how it is in the Cambridge book.

This is how it is in the ms

 

[ahmedish]

Do I have to use skeletal formula in Paper 4? It seems like all the answers in the markscheme are standardised to use skeletal formula, but I am more comfortable with the displayed formula. I know sometimes they specify but do I have to use if its not specified in the question?

 

[ashcull14]

Do I have to use skeletal formula in Paper 4? It seems like all the answers in the markscheme are standardised to use skeletal formula, but I am more comfortable with the displayed formula. I know sometimes they specify but do I have to use if its not specified in the question?

its always better to use whatever is present in the mark scheme if u want to b on a safe side

 

[cashew]

http://maxpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/9701_w08_qp_4.pdf
please help with Q4 b iii)

 

[funky brat]

Do I have to use skeletal formula in Paper 4? It seems like all the answers in the markscheme are standardised to use skeletal formula, but I am more comfortable with the displayed formula. I know sometimes they specify but do I have to use if its not specified in the question?

If it isn't specified in the question, you can use any as long as it is correct.

 

[techgeek]

Is it fine of I write them as 2 separate reactions because that's how it is in the Cambridge book.View attachment 60334

This is how it is in the msView attachment 60335

Where is your K2SO4 formed? I guess you should start writing the way mark scheme advises us cauz it's kinda confusing

 

[funky brat]

Anyone please explain?

 

[funky brat]

And this too?

 

[techgeek]

Anyone please explain?
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Notice that before hydrolysis, we have total 5 alcohols, one primary alcohol, the one projecting upwards on top left, and the other 4 are all primary, because all of them are bonded to a carbon which, in turn, is bonded to another carbon.
After hydrolysis, the Cls will be replaced by OH, our primary alcohol remains the same as 1, secondary increase by 1, because another secondary has been added when the left sided chlorine gets replaced by OH. The Cl on the very right, gets replaced by OH as well, but since it is bonded to a carbon atom, which in turn, is bonded to more than 2 carbon atoms, that one becomes a tertiary alcohol. That leaves us with the option C.

 

[funky brat]

Notice that before hydrolysis, we have total 5 alcohols, one primary alcohol, the one projecting upwards on top left, and the other 4 are all primary, because all of them are bonded to a carbon which, in turn, is bonded to another carbon.
After hydrolysis, the Cls will be replaced by OH, our primary alcohol remains the same as 1, secondary increase by 1, because another secondary has been added when the left sided chlorine gets replaced by OH. The Cl on the very right, gets replaced by OH as well, but since it is bonded to a carbon atom, which in turn, is bonded to more than 2 carbon atoms, that one becomes a tertiary alcohol. That leaves us with the option C.

I got it thanks. I had been confusing sth.

 

[funky brat]

Anyone?

 

[Rizwan Javed]

And this too? View attachment 60341

The possible products of the reaction are these ^
There're two possible products for 3, so this is incorrect, since the question says that the reaction must get only single product.

So the answer will be B.

 

[Lola_sweet]

can someone please explain this qs? :/

 

[Rizwan Javed]

can someone please explain this qs? :/

Are these from p2?

 

[Lola_sweet]

Are these from p2?

nope
p4