Q.(a) What happens when (write only chemical equation):-
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →(a) Calcium acetate on dry distillation gives acetone; formaldehyde with excess ammonia gives urotropine. (b) Rosenmund, Friedel-Crafts acetylation, and Wolff-Kishner are three named reactions of carbonyl chemistry — converting acid chlorides to aldehydes, benzene to an aryl ketone, and carbonyls to methylene groups respectively.
(a)(i) Dry distillation of calcium acetate:
(CH3COO)2Ca --(dry distillation / heat)--> CH3COCH3 (acetone) + CaCO3
This is a classic laboratory method for preparing a ketone (acetone) from the calcium salt of a carboxylic acid.
(a)(ii) Formaldehyde + ammonia:
6HCHO + 4NH3 → (CH2)6N4 (hexamethylenetetramine, also called urotropine) + 6H2O
Formaldehyde condenses with excess ammonia to form this cyclic compound, used as a drug (urinary antiseptic) and in resin manufacture.
(b)(i) Rosenmund reaction:
An acid chloride is selectively hydrogenated to an aldehyde using hydrogen gas over a palladium catalyst supported on barium sulphate, which is 'poisoned' (partially deactivated, e.g. with sulphur/quinoline) to stop the reaction at the aldehyde stage (preventing further reduction to the alcohol):
RCOCl + H2 --Pd/BaSO4 (poisoned)--> RCHO + HCl
(b)(ii) Friedel-Crafts acetylation:
Benzene reacts with acetyl chloride (or acetic anhydride) in the presence of anhydrous AlCl3 (a Lewis acid catalyst) to introduce an acetyl group onto the aromatic ring, giving acetophenone:
C6H6 + CH3COCl --anhyd. AlCl3--> C6H5COCH3 (acetophenone) + HCl
(b)(iii) Wolff-Kishner reduction: …
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