Exercises

The chapter closes with a set of 40 exercises that spans everything the unit has built: hybridisation states and sigma/pi bond counting, condensed and bond-line structural formulas, IUPAC nomenclature of branched, cyclic and functionalised compounds, homologous series, isomerism, curved-arrow notation for bond cleavage, electrophiles and nucleophiles, electron-displacement effects, reaction-type classification, purification techniques (crystallisation, the distillation family, differential extraction and chromatography), the chemistry behind Lassaigne's test, and the quantitative estimation calculations for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, halogens and sulphur. …