Table of Contents
- 1 What happens when 2-bromopropane react with sodium in dry ether?
- 2 What products would you expect when 2-bromopropane is heated with Na dry ether & with ALC Koh?
- 3 How would you prepare 2-bromopropane by using propene?
- 4 What happens when Bromopropane is treated with magnesium in the presence of dry ether?
- 5 Which hydrocarbon can be obtained in course of reaction between sodium and 1 Chlorobutane?
- 6 What happens when alkyl halide reacts with sodium metal in dry ether?
What happens when 2-bromopropane react with sodium in dry ether?
Reaction of alkyl halides with sodium metal to form higher alkanes is known as Wurtz’s reaction. When 2-bromopropane is reacted with sodium metal in presence of dry ether, 2,2-dimethylbutane is obtained. When methyl bromide is treated with sodium metal in presence of dry ether, coupling takes place to give ethane.
What products would you expect when 2-bromopropane is heated with Na dry ether & with ALC Koh?
2-bromopropane on heating with alcoholic KOH gives propene gas.
When 2 Chloropropane is treated with Na dry ether the product is?
2,3-dimethyl butane
When 2-chloro propane is reacted with sodium metal and dry ether, there is a formation of 2,3-dimethyl butane.
What happens when secondary Haloalkane is heated with Na?
Haloalkanes and Haloarenes. Alkyl halides react with sodium in dry ether to give hydrocarbons containing double the number of carbon atoms present in the halide. This reaction is known as Wurtz reaction.
How would you prepare 2-bromopropane by using propene?
Addition of HBr to propene gives 2-bromopropane. The hydrogen of HBr adds to carbon 1 of propene and bromine adds to carbon 2.
What happens when Bromopropane is treated with magnesium in the presence of dry ether?
A bromoalkane ‘X’ reacts with magnesium in dry ether to form compound ‘y’. The reaction of ‘y’ with methanal followed by hydrolysis yields an alcohol having molecular formula C4H10O.
What is the product obtained when 2 bromo propane is treated with metallic sodium in dry ether *?
2,3-dimethylbutane.
What happens when 2 Chlorobutane is treated with sodium and dry ether?
When 2-chlorobutane is treated with solid sodium in the presence of dry ether, it results in the formation of 3, 4-dimethylhexane. This reaction above is known as Wurtz reaction. This reaction occurs when one has to increase carbon atoms.
Which hydrocarbon can be obtained in course of reaction between sodium and 1 Chlorobutane?
Answer : The conversion of 1-chlorobutane to n-octane in the presence of Na metal and dry ether is called Wurtz reaction. Two equivalent Chlorobutane reacts to give n-octane as a final product and NaCl as the by-product.
What happens when alkyl halide reacts with sodium metal in dry ether?
The reaction of alkyl halides with sodium in presence of dry ether is known as wurtz reaction. This reaction is used to prepare higher alkanes. In this reaction two symmetric alkyl halides are used so that the product formed contains double the number of carbon atoms.
Why alkyl halides though Polar are immiscible with water?
When alkyl halides are added to water, the strength of interaction between an alkyl halide molecule and a water molecule is weaker than the strength of a hydrogen bond between two water molecules. Thus, alkyl halides are immiscible in water though they are polar because they cannot form hydrogen bonds with water.