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Find out the chemical name and formula for the following common household substance. 

Vinegar.

Important Questions on Carbon and its Compounds

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Give the chemical equation for the reaction of ethanoic acid with CH3CH2OH in the presence of acid.
HARD
Give the chemical equation for the reaction of ethanoic acid with Na2CO3.
HARD

How ethanoic acid reacts with the following? Give chemical equation.

NaOH

HARD

How ethanoic acid reacts with the following? Give chemical equation.

Na2CO3

HARD

Give the chemical equation for the reaction of ethanoic acid with NaOH.

MEDIUM

Complete the following table:

Sr. No. Common Name Structural formula IUPAC Name
1. Ethylene CH2=CH2 _____
2. _____ CH3COOH Ethanoic acid
3. Methyl alcohol _____ Methanol
EASY

Study the equation and answer the following:

CH3CH2OH H2SO4hot con CH2=CH2+CHO

What is the role of H2SO4 in the above reaction?

 

MEDIUM

How ethanoic acid reacts with CH3CH2OH in presence of acid? Give chemical equation. :

MEDIUM
A compound X (having vinegar like smell) when treated with ethanol in the presence of the acid, Z, gives a compound Y which has a fruity smell.
The reaction is
C2H5OH+XZY+H2O
Write the structural formula of X.
HARD

Write the structural formulae of the following compounds: 

(a) Ethanoic acid  (b) Bromopentane 

(c) Butanone  (d) Hexanal  and (e) Propanol. 

MEDIUM
Give the chemical equation for the reaction of ethanoic acid with NaHCO3.
EASY
Which of the following compound contains a carboxyl group? 
EASY

Draw the structures for the following:

  1. Ethanoic acid
MEDIUM

Answer the following:

Give a chemical equation for the reaction of Ethanol with excess hot conc. sulphuric acid.

EASY
A compound ‘X’ on heating with excess conc. sulphuric acid at 443 K gives an unsaturated compound ‘Y’. ‘X’ also reacts with sodium metal to evolve a colourless gas ‘Z’. Identify ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’. Write the equation of the chemical reaction of formation of ‘Y’ and also write the role of sulphuric acid in the reaction.