Nucleophilic Substitution (AQA A-Level Chemistry): Quizzes
📚Quizzes
Practise the questions
10 questions from this quiz
ShowHide
Practise the questions
10 questions from this quiz
What is a nucleophile?
What is a nucleophile?
Species donating lone pair of electrons
What conditions are needed for to react with halogenoalkanes to form alcohols?
What conditions are needed for to react with halogenoalkanes to form alcohols?
Aqueous and warm conditions
What is special about the reaction of with halogenoalkanes?
What is special about the reaction of with halogenoalkanes?
It lengthens the carbon chain
Why is a sealed flask used for ammonia reacting with halogenoalkanes?
Why is a sealed flask used for ammonia reacting with halogenoalkanes?
Ammonia would escape as gas with reflux
What is the major product when excess ammonia reacts with a halogenoalkane?
What is the major product when excess ammonia reacts with a halogenoalkane?
Primary amine
What happens to nitrogen in a quaternary ammonium salt?
What happens to nitrogen in a quaternary ammonium salt?
Positively charged with no lone pair
What makes quaternary ammonium salts useful as cationic surfactants?
What makes quaternary ammonium salts useful as cationic surfactants?
Charged head and hydrophobic tail
Which carbon does the nucleophile attack in halogenoalkane substitution?
Which carbon does the nucleophile attack in halogenoalkane substitution?
Positively charged carbon with halogen
What intermediate forms when ammonia attacks an acyl chloride's carbonyl carbon?
What intermediate forms when ammonia attacks an acyl chloride's carbonyl carbon?
A tetrahedral intermediate
What by-product forms when ammonia reacts with an acid anhydride?
What by-product forms when ammonia reacts with an acid anhydride?
A carboxylic acid