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KMnO4 will add across the double bond of alkenes (or alkynes) resulting in the docolouring of KMnO4 but not an alkane such as ethane.

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Why is suger insoluble in benzene?

Sugar is insoluble in benzene due to the differences in their chemical properties. Sugar is a polar compound with numerous hydroxyl groups, making it soluble in water. Whereas benzene is a nonpolar solvent that cannot form hydrogen bonds with the polar sugar molecules. This mismatch in polarity prevents sugar from dissolving in benzene.


Can benzene h bond?

Benzene cannot form hydrogen bonds because it does not have hydrogen atoms bonded directly to highly electronegative atoms like nitrogen, oxygen, or fluorine. Benzene has only carbon and hydrogen atoms, so it does not exhibit hydrogen bonding.


Why is benzene not considered a cycloalkene?

First of all a cycloalkene could be many things, such as, cyclopentane, cyclohexane or like. If you mean the difference between cyclohexene and benzene, then there is the double bound, 3 of a kind in a benzene molecule.


What is the chemical formula of chlorobenzene?

Benzene is equal parts hydrogen and carbon, and has C6H6 as it molecular formula. It is actually a ring with the carbons in the middle and the hydrogen bonded one-to-one with the carbon atoms on the outside. Use the link below for more information and to see a "picture" that cannot be drawn here.


Why benzene cannot decolonize KMnO4?

Benzene is a stable aromatic compound that does not readily undergo oxidation by potassium permanganate (KMnO4) due to the lack of reactive functional groups. Phenol or other compounds with labile hydrogen atoms are more susceptible to oxidation by KMnO4. Benzene's stable ring structure prevents it from being easily oxidized by KMnO4.

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Why is suger insoluble in benzene?

Sugar is insoluble in benzene due to the differences in their chemical properties. Sugar is a polar compound with numerous hydroxyl groups, making it soluble in water. Whereas benzene is a nonpolar solvent that cannot form hydrogen bonds with the polar sugar molecules. This mismatch in polarity prevents sugar from dissolving in benzene.


Can benzene h bond?

Benzene cannot form hydrogen bonds because it does not have hydrogen atoms bonded directly to highly electronegative atoms like nitrogen, oxygen, or fluorine. Benzene has only carbon and hydrogen atoms, so it does not exhibit hydrogen bonding.


Why is benzene not considered a cycloalkene?

First of all a cycloalkene could be many things, such as, cyclopentane, cyclohexane or like. If you mean the difference between cyclohexene and benzene, then there is the double bound, 3 of a kind in a benzene molecule.


What is the chemical formula of chlorobenzene?

Benzene is equal parts hydrogen and carbon, and has C6H6 as it molecular formula. It is actually a ring with the carbons in the middle and the hydrogen bonded one-to-one with the carbon atoms on the outside. Use the link below for more information and to see a "picture" that cannot be drawn here.


Why benzene cannot decolonize KMnO4?

Benzene is a stable aromatic compound that does not readily undergo oxidation by potassium permanganate (KMnO4) due to the lack of reactive functional groups. Phenol or other compounds with labile hydrogen atoms are more susceptible to oxidation by KMnO4. Benzene's stable ring structure prevents it from being easily oxidized by KMnO4.


Are alkenes saturated or unsaturated?

Alkenes are unsaturated hydrocarbons because they contain at least one carbon-carbon double bond, which results in the molecule having fewer hydrogen atoms compared to a saturated hydrocarbon with the same number of carbons.


What is alkanes and alkenes?

The difference between an alkane and an alkene is that: Alkanes have only single bonds between carbon atoms and are said to be saturated: when put in bromine water, the bromine water stays orange - formula: CnH2n+2; Alkenes: have one or more double bond(s) between carbon atoms and are unsaturated: when put in bromine water, the bromine water turns clear - formula: CnH2n.


How will you prepare inorganic benzene from diborane?

Take a multiple of three moles of diborane plus a multiple of six moles of ammonia, mix them together, heat them to 300 degrees Celsius and stand by with a fire extinguisher because reacting three moles of diborane with six moles of ammonia liberates 12 moles of hydrogen.


Why does benzoic acid form a dimer in benzene and not in water?

Benzene is a non polar solvent with low dielectric constant, whereas water is a polar solvent with high dielectric constant. So water can reduce the interaction between benzoic acid molecules there by preventing them from dimerizing, which cannot be done by benzene


Why benzene undergo electrophilic substitution reaction easily and nucleophilic substution reaction with difficulty easily and?

the electron in benzene are delocalised making d ring to be elctron rich,thereby undergoing electrophilic substitution.benzene cannot undergo nucleophillic substitution,it can only undergo if it is substituted with an electron withdrawing group


Why the shape of benzene is hexagonal why not square rectangular?

This is because if it could exist in long chain form then the addition reactions of H2 and Cl2 should also b obeyed by it.But 3 molecules of each above react with 1 of benzene.But the chained structure goes toward 4 molecules of each.This predicts that benzene is not chain molecule i.e Aliphatic.The carbon atom's hybridized orbitals overlap in such a way that the internal angle is 120 degree.It should notice that internal angle of hexagon is same.So it exists in such shape.Its my opinion.


Why iodobenzene cannot be prepared by Gattermann reaction?

The Gatterman reaction is used to convert benzene to benzaldehyde (and derivatives). You need to use the Sandmeyer reaction to add iodo groups to aromatic rings. I think textbooks sometimes gets the two reactions mixed up.