Synthetic Routes (copy)

Heat it under reflux using acidified potassium dichromate VI (K2Cr2O7/H2SO4) as an oxidising agent

How do you convert a primary alcohol into a carboxylic acid?

Distil it using acidified potassium dichromate VI (K2Cr2O7/H2SO4) as an oxidising agent

How do you convert a primary alcohol into an aldehyde?

Heat it under reflux using acidified potassium dichromate VI (K2Cr2O7/H2SO4) as an oxidising agent

How do you convert a secondary alcohol into a ketone?

Heat it under reflux using an acid catalyst (concentrated H2SO4/H3PO4)

How do you convert an alcohol into an alkene?

Heat under reflux with a sodium halide and sulfuric acid

How do you convert an alcohol into a haloalkane?

React with steam in the presence of an H3PO4 catalyst at 300C and 60-70 atm of pressure

How do you convert an alkene into an alcohol?

Heat under reflux with aqueous sodium hydroxide

How do you convert a haloalkane into an alcohol?

Nucleophilic substitution

What is the mechanism by which a haloalkane becomes an alcohol?

Draw the hydrolysis of bromoethane to become ethanol

React with a halogen at room temperature

How do you convert an alkene into a dihaloalkane?

React with a hydrogen halide at room temperature

How do you convert an alkene into a haloalkane?

Electrophilic addition

What is the mechanism by which an alkene becomes a (di)haloalkane?

Draw the electrophilic addition of ethene with HBr to become bromoethane

React with hydrogen and pass over a nickel catalyst at 423K

How do you convert an alkene into an alkane?

React with a halogen under UV radiation

How do you convert an alkane into a haloalkane?

Radical substitution

What is the mechanism by which an alkane becomes a haloalkane?

Draw the radical substitution of methane to become chloromethane