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Question
State how the following conversion can be carried out:
Ethyl chloride to ethene
Solution
By heating ethyl chloride with alcoholic KOH
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Choose the most appropriate answer of the following:
Identify the statement which does not describe the property of alkenes:
(A) They are unsaturated hydrocarbons
(B) They decolorize bromine water
(C) They can undergo addition as well as substitution reactions
(D) They undergo combustion with oxygen forming carbon dioxide and water.
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Reaction when an alkyl halide is treated with alcoholic potassium hydroxide.
Convert methane into chloroform.
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Write the electron dot formula of ethane.
Give a balanced equation for the lab. Preparation of ethylene. How is the gas collected?
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Give the conditions and the main products formed by hydrogenation of ethene.
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\[\ce{H2C = CH2 + HBr}\] →
Give reasons:
Ethene is more reactive than ethane.
