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Organic Chemistry Practice Problems

This document contains an organic chemistry practice problem set with 25 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. The questions cover topics such as naming aliphatic compounds, writing formulas, identifying functional groups, comparing boiling points, and describing reaction types. The student is asked to provide names, formulas, indicate whether statements are true or false, and identify reactants for common organic chemistry reactions.

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Organic Chemistry Practice Problems

This document contains an organic chemistry practice problem set with 25 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. The questions cover topics such as naming aliphatic compounds, writing formulas, identifying functional groups, comparing boiling points, and describing reaction types. The student is asked to provide names, formulas, indicate whether statements are true or false, and identify reactants for common organic chemistry reactions.

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Name ________________________

Organic chemistry practice problems

Date ___________________
Mr. Belanger

1. A chain compound in which all carbon-carbon bonds are single is called _____________.
2. Compounds having the same general formula belong to the same ___________________.
Write a proper name for each of the following aliphatic compounds having no attachments.
3. C5H12 = ____________________________ 4. C8H18 = ____________________________
5. C3H6 = _____________________________ 6. C4H6 = _____________________________
Write the proper formula for each of the following compounds.
7. pentanal = ___________________________ 8. propene = ___________________________
9. propyne = ___________________________ 10. 2-heptanone = _______________________
11. 1-propanol = ________________________ 12. butanamide = _______________________
Match each functional group with its proper name.
a) ester
b) ether
c) ketone
_____ 13. RCOOH
_____ 14. RCOOR
_____ 16. RCOR
_____ 17. ROR

d) organic acid
_____ 15. ROH

e) alcohol

18. Put the compounds below in order of increasing boiling point.


C5H10, C3H6, C9H18
__________ , ___________ , ___________
19. What is the name of the compound produced during an addition reaction between 1-octene
and hydrogen gas?
______________________________
20. True or False. When a compound has more than one attachment, attachments appear in
numerical order in the name of the compound.
21. True or False. The term trimethyl means one three-carbon attachment.
22. True or False. Alcohols are neither acidic nor basic.
23. True or False. Because aromatic hydroxyl compounds have properties that are different than
most alcohols, they are classified as bases.
24. True or False. Polyester is a hydrocarbon.
25. What are the reactants in an esterification reaction? ________________________________

Answers
1) saturated
2) homologous series
3) pentane
4) octane
5) propene
6) 1-butyne or 2-butyne
7) C4H9COH
8) C3H6
9) C3H4
10) CH3COC5H11
11) C3H7OH
12) C3H7CONH2
13) d
14) a
15) e
16) c
17) b
18) C3H6, C5H10, C9H18
19) octane
20) false
21) false
22) true
23) false
24) false
25) alcohol and organic acid

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