How will you prepare hexyne from ethyne?
1. Explain with suitable examples:
a) Both chlorobenzene and chloroethene do not undergo
substitution reactions under ordinary conditions with NaOH.
b) Carbonyl group of benzaldehyde is less reactive towards
nucleophilic addition reactions than the carbonyl group of
ethanal.
2. Write the product (s) and mechanism for the following
reactions:
(5)
3. How would you carry out following conversions?
a) Ethene to oxirane
b) Benzyl magnesium chloride to 3-phenylpropanol
c) Propene to glycerol
d) Benzaldehyde to 3-phenylpropenoic acid
e) Ethanol to trichloromethane (5)
4. a) How would you differentiate between different classes of
alcohols?
b) Give two reduction methods which can convert a carbonyl
compound to an alkane.