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Benzene - a six carbon, six hydrogen [planar] ring - C6H6 - has no side-groups.
Yet when any one single side-hydrogen is replaced with one Methyl (-CH3) Group, we have Toluene. Short Answer = one methyl group.
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What is tnt?
Tri-nitro toluene. Toluene is a benzene ring with a methyl group attached. The nitration of this to TNT occurs at the 2,4,6 positions.
What is the different between benzene and nitro benzene?
Nitrobenzene has a nitro group.Benzene lacks that group
Why methyl aclcohol soluble in water and benzene is not?
The solubility difference between methyl alcohol (CH3OH) and benzene (C6H6) is related to the polar nature of methyl alcohol and the non polar nature of benzene. The OH group on methyl alcohol makes this a polar molecule and thus soluble in water. The lack of such a polar group in benzene makes it non polar, and thus insoluble in water.
What is the functional group of 2 4 6 trinitrotoluene?
It should be obvious from the name that one of the functional groups (three of them, in fact) is a nitro group, NO2. Somewhat less obvious is that there's also a methyl group and a benzene ring that make up the "toluene" part of the name.
What is the functional group of phenols?
A Benzene ring and a hydroxl group (-OH).
Why nitration of toluene is easier than benzene?
Hi ,As you know from the structures of both the compounds that toluene has a methyl group on the benzene ring which is electron releasing group and hence activate the benzene ring by pushing the elctrons on the benzene ring. On the other hand nitro group on the benzene ring is electron withdrawing group which deactivates the benzene ring by withdrawing the electrons from the benzene ring . Now in the nitration attack of the nucleophile ( NO2 +) takes place. Hence reaction will takes place on that benzene faster which have more electron density on its ring which is the case of toluene.
What is tnt?
Tri-nitro toluene. Toluene is a benzene ring with a methyl group attached. The nitration of this to TNT occurs at the 2,4,6 positions.
What is more volatile benzene or toluene?
Yes. The methyl group on toluene causes a shift in electron density making it polar. Benzene is non-polar and has uniform distribution of charge density and has no dipole moment. Toluene, though, would not be more polar than a phenol because the more electronegative oxygen atom (in the alcohol) pulls more electron density from the ring causing a larger dipole moment (separation of charge).
What are the products of a toluene-sulfuric acid reaction?
toulene+sulphuric acid = o-methyl benzene sulphonic acid + p-methyl benzene sulphonic acid. Since methly group is ortho and para directed group so it activates benzene ring for electrophilic substitution reaction.
What are the differences based the structural features differences of toluene and ethanol?
Each is a completely different molecule. Toluene has a benzene ring with a methyl group attached, Ethanol is a 2 carbon chain with 5 hydrogen atoms and one OH group attached.
What type of bonds in toluene?
The toluene molecule consists of a methyl group single-bonded to a benzene ring. The benzene ring consists six bonds that are modeled as resonance-stabilized single bonds. In other words, the shorthand representation shows alternating single and double bonds between the carbons in the rings, but experimentally all bonds are of equal strength somewhere between that of single and double bonds.
What is the different between benzene and nitro benzene?
Nitrobenzene has a nitro group.Benzene lacks that group
Why methyl aclcohol soluble in water and benzene is not?
The solubility difference between methyl alcohol (CH3OH) and benzene (C6H6) is related to the polar nature of methyl alcohol and the non polar nature of benzene. The OH group on methyl alcohol makes this a polar molecule and thus soluble in water. The lack of such a polar group in benzene makes it non polar, and thus insoluble in water.
What is the point group for Benzene?
The point group for Benzene is D6h.
What is the functional group of 2 4 6 trinitrotoluene?
It should be obvious from the name that one of the functional groups (three of them, in fact) is a nitro group, NO2. Somewhat less obvious is that there's also a methyl group and a benzene ring that make up the "toluene" part of the name.
Why nitration of nitrobenzene is difficult than nitration of benzene?
because nitro group is ring deactivating group, nitration of nitro benzene is more difficult than benzene.
What is the IUPAC name of benzene?
The IUPAC name for Benzene is Benzene. It forms the basis for other IUPAC-named benzene derivatives like 1,2-dimethylbenzene etc.Benzene as a substituent group is called the phenyl group. (e.g. phenylethylamine)IUPAC name of Benzene is 1,3,5-cyclohexatriene.
