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**C14. Organic chemistry**

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 * ======**14.1 Fuels**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======Recall coal, natural gas and petroleum as fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide on combustion.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 2  ====== || ======Understand the essential principle of fractional distillation in terms of differing boiling points (ranges) of fractions related to molecular size and intermolecular attractive forces.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 3  ====== || ======Name methane as the main constituent of natural gas.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 4  ====== || ======Describe petroleum as a mixture of hydrocarbons and its separation into useful fractions by fractional distillation.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 5  ====== || ======State the use of:======

• diesel oil/gas oil for fuel in diesel engines.
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 * ======**14.2 Introduction to organic compounds**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======Identify and draw the structures of methane, ethane, ethene and ethanol.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 2  ====== || ======Describe the concept of homologous series of alkanes and alkenes as families of compounds with similar properties.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 3  ====== || ======State the type of compound present, given a chemical name ending in -//ane//, -//ene// and //ol//, or a molecular structure.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 4  ====== || ======Name, identify and draw the structures of the unbranched alkanes and alkenes (not //cis-trans//), containing up to four carbon atoms per molecule.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ======**14.3 Hydrocarbons**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======Describe the properties of alkanes (exemplified by methane) as being generally unreactive, except in terms of burning.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 2  ====== || ======State that the products of complete combustion of hydrocarbons, exemplified by methane, are carbon dioxide and water.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 3  ====== || ======Name cracking as a reaction which produces alkenes.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 4  ====== || ======Describe the manufacture of alkenes by cracking.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 5  ====== || ======Recognise saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons======

• by their reaction with aqueous bromine.
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 * ====== 6  ====== || ======Describe the addition reactions of alkenes, exemplified by ethene, with bromine, hydrogen and steam.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ======**14.4 Alcohols**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======State that ethanol may be formed by reaction between ethene and steam.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 2  ====== || ======Describe the formation of ethanol by the catalytic addition of steam to ethene.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 3  ====== || ======Describe the complete combustion reaction of ethanol.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 4  ====== || ======State the uses of ethanol as a solvent and as a fuel.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ======**14.5 Macromolecules**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======Describe macromolecules in terms of large molecules built up from small units (monomers), different macromolecules having different units.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ======**14.6 Synthetic polymers**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======Describe the formation of poly(ethene) as an example of addition polymerisation of monomer units.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 2  ====== || ======Draw the structure of poly(ethene).====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 3  ====== || ======Describe the formation of a simple condensation polymer exemplified by nylon, the structure of nylon being represented as:====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ======**14.7 Natural macromolecules**====== ||
 * ====== 1  ====== || ======Describe proteins as possessing the same (amide) linkages as nylon but formed from the linking of amino acids.====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====== 2  ====== || ======State that proteins can be hydrolysed to amino acids under acid or alkaline conditions. (Structures and names are **not** required.)====== ||   ||   ||   ||   ||