Chemistry · Ch 14 — Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
Introduction
Introduction
Opens the shift from hydrocarbons to compounds bearing one or more halogen atoms (F, Cl, Br, I) in place of hydrogen on an aliphatic or aromatic skeleton -- haloalkanes (aliphatic) and haloarenes (aromatic). These halogenated organics are far more than a classroom curiosity: soil microbes make chloramphenicol (used against typhoid), chloroquine treats malaria, halothane is a clinical anaesthetic, and trichloroethylene is an industrial solvent for cleaning electronic equipment -- and, more broadly, halo …
Worked out. A short biography box: the French chemist who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering and realising the synthetic usefulness of organomagnesium (Grignard) compounds. He originally took a degree in mathematics and only later switched to organic chemistry, arriving at his discovery while searching for a catalyst for the methylation …