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OCR A-Level Chemistry A: Module 6 (Organic chemistry and analysis) overview quiz quiz

10questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Why does benzene undergo electrophilic substitution rather than addition?

  2. Which reagents nitrate benzene?

  3. What catalyst is used in the Friedel-Crafts acylation of benzene?

  4. Which test distinguishes an aldehyde from a ketone?

  5. Which reagent reduces a ketone to a secondary alcohol?

  6. What are the conditions for making an ester from a carboxylic acid and an alcohol?

  7. An amino acid in a neutral solution exists mainly as which species?

  8. A polyamide is formed by condensation polymerisation of which pair of monomers?

  9. In carbon-13 NMR, what does the number of signals tell you?

  10. In the proton NMR of CH3CH2Br\text{CH}_3\text{CH}_2\text{Br}, into how many lines is the CH2\text{CH}_2 signal split?