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Why alcohols are comparatively more soluble in water than hydrocarbons of comparable molecular masses?
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Why are alcohols soluble in polar solvents while hydrocarbons are not?
Ionic compounds (like alcohols) are soluble only in polar solvents (eg. water).
Why are alkenes from alcohols not used on an industrial scale?
Since alcohols are obtained by hydration of alkenes, it is meaningless to manufacture alkenes from alkanes. Moreover, cracking hydrocarbons is a more effective and economical to make alkenes. Shawkat
Why do alcohols have lower boiling points than the corresponding carboxylic acids?
Alcohols have low power Vander woals bonds.Carboxilic acids have Hydrogen bonds as inter molecular bonds.
Are alcohols hydrocarbons?
Hydrocarbons are organic compounds that only contain carbon and hydrogen.Alcohols are not hydrocarbons, as they also contain oxygen atoms.To convert a long-chain hydrocarbon into an alcohol, 1st cracking must be carried out, breaking the long-chain into smaller molecules and alkenes (hydrocarbons with carbon-carbon double bonds) and 2ndly the alkenes must be hydrated (at high temperature and pressure in presence of a catalyst).Example:1. Cracking (540°C, catalyst)decane (a hydrocarbon) C10H22 → pentane C5H12 + propene CH2=CH-CH3 + ethene CH2=CH22. Hydration (570°C, 60-70 atm, a catalyst such as phosphoric acid)ethene CH2=CH2 + H2O → ethanol (an alcohol) CH3CH2OH
What type of alcohols is fischer esterification limited to?
Primary and secondary alcohols are commonly used in the process and work efficiently with an acid catalyst but tertiary alcohols can also be used in some cases under the right conditions. One the reasons that it is more difficult to use tertiary alcohols is because of the steric hinderance which exists in the molecule so there is too much molecular interaction for a stable compound to form.
What hydrocarbons are acids and alcohols?
None - hydrocarbons are chemically different than acids and alcohols
Are alcohols saturated hydrocarbons?
Yes
Why are alcohols soluble in polar solvents while hydrocarbons are not?
Ionic compounds (like alcohols) are soluble only in polar solvents (eg. water).
What molecular appendage do all alcohols contain?
an OH group
How many primary alcohols have the molecular formula C5H11OH?
FOUR
What is the difference between alochol and oil?
Both alcohols and oil are organic compounds. The hydrocarbons in crude oil are mostly alkanes, cycloalkanes and various aromatic hydrocarbons, and tend not to contain oxygen, nitrogen, etc. Alcohols DO contain oxygen, in the form of the functional -OH alcoholic group. Alcohols are more reactive than the compounds in oil.
What is a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen atoms?
Compounds that contain ONLY carbon and hydrogen are named as 'hydrocarbons'. Some examples;_ Methane, Ethene, Octane. Alcohols and carboxylic acids are NOT hydrocarbons, because they also contain oxygen.
Alcohols are organic compounds that contain?
Hydrocarbons are the organic compounds containing molecules with carbon and hydrogen.
Why are alkenes from alcohols not used on an industrial scale?
Since alcohols are obtained by hydration of alkenes, it is meaningless to manufacture alkenes from alkanes. Moreover, cracking hydrocarbons is a more effective and economical to make alkenes. Shawkat
Are alcohols hydrocarbons?
Hydrocarbons are organic compounds that only contain carbon and hydrogen.Alcohols are not hydrocarbons, as they also contain oxygen atoms.To convert a long-chain hydrocarbon into an alcohol, 1st cracking must be carried out, breaking the long-chain into smaller molecules and alkenes (hydrocarbons with carbon-carbon double bonds) and 2ndly the alkenes must be hydrated (at high temperature and pressure in presence of a catalyst).Example:1. Cracking (540°C, catalyst)decane (a hydrocarbon) C10H22 → pentane C5H12 + propene CH2=CH-CH3 + ethene CH2=CH22. Hydration (570°C, 60-70 atm, a catalyst such as phosphoric acid)ethene CH2=CH2 + H2O → ethanol (an alcohol) CH3CH2OH
Why do alcohols have lower boiling points than the corresponding carboxylic acids?
Alcohols have low power Vander woals bonds.Carboxilic acids have Hydrogen bonds as inter molecular bonds.
What has the author Lewis Frederic Hatch written?
Lewis Frederic Hatch has written: 'Isopropyl alcohol' -- subject(s): Isopropyl alcohol 'From hydrocarbons to petrochemicals' -- subject(s): Petroleum chemicals 'Higher oxo alcohols' -- subject(s): Alcohols
