Alkyl Halides

Chemistry, HSSC-KPK Second Year. This chapter is split into 38 topics and has 953 practice questions. The topics covered are listed below, followed by 10 free sample questions from the chapter.

Topics in this chapter

1. Preparation of amines: alkylation of ammonia and reduction methods 24 questions
2. Grignard reagents: definition, preparation, and reactivity 27 questions
3. Elimination reactions (E1/E2 mechanisms) and substitution versus elimination 27 questions
4. SN1 and SN2 nucleophilic substitution mechanisms 27 questions
5. Alkyl halide nomenclature, classification, and physical properties 27 questions
6. Amines: classification, nomenclature, physical properties, structure, and basicity 27 questions
7. Reactions of amines: alkylation, imine/amide formation, and diazonium salts 24 questions
8. Nucleophilic substitution concepts: nucleophile, base, carbocation, substrate 27 questions
9. Preparation and reactivity of alkyl halides 27 questions
10. Reactions of Grignard reagents with aldehydes, ketones, esters, and carbon dioxide 25 questions
11. Naming alkyl halides: common and IUPAC names of new examples 27 questions
12. Classifying alkyl halides as primary, secondary or tertiary: worked cases 25 questions
13. Boiling points of alkyl halides: reading and using Table 17.1 26 questions
14. C-X bond energies and the reactivity order of alkyl halides: data and calculations 27 questions
15. Carbocation stability and the ionization energy data of alkyl bromides 24 questions
16. Preparing alkyl halides from alcohols and alkanes: equations and stoichiometry 26 questions
17. SN1 and SN2 rate laws: worked kinetics problems 25 questions
18. SN1 versus SN2: deciding the mechanism from substrate, solvent and kinetics 28 questions
19. Steps, intermediates and transition state in SN1 and SN2 (Figures of Section 17.1.6) 22 questions
20. Elimination of HX from alkyl halides: alpha and beta positions, rate laws and products 27 questions
21. Substitution versus elimination: predicting the dominant pathway 24 questions
22. Nucleophiles, electrophiles, bases and substrates: classifying species and roles 26 questions
23. Organometallic compounds and Grignard reagents: names, formulas and bond polarity 26 questions
24. Preparing Grignard reagents: mechanism, ease of formation and calculations 23 questions
25. Grignard reagents with aldehydes and ketones: predicting the alcohol formed 27 questions
26. Grignard reagents with esters and carbon dioxide: products and reagent equivalents 26 questions
27. Planning Grignard syntheses: choosing reagents for a target alcohol or acid 22 questions
28. Amines: classifying and naming new examples 27 questions
29. Amines: boiling points, hydrogen bonding, solubility and molecular shape 23 questions
30. Basicity of amines: proton acceptance, salt formation and aqueous equilibria 23 questions
31. Preparing amines by alkylation of ammonia with alkyl halides: stepwise equations 21 questions
32. Primary amines by reduction of nitroalkanes, nitriles and amides: products and stoichiometry 29 questions
33. Reactions of amines: successive alkylation, imines and N-substituted amides 27 questions
34. Diazotization and diazonium salts: reagents, stoichiometry and uses 22 questions
35. Learning outcomes, exercise items and chapter overview of Unit 17 24 questions
36. Isomerism of alkyl halides and amines (learning outcome): counting and classifying isomers 21 questions
37. Assertion-reason questions on alkyl halides, Grignard reagents and amines 23 questions
38. Multi-step problems linking alkyl halides, Grignard reagents and amines 20 questions