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