Exam questions 2012/2013 1. Alkanes, cycloalkanes, nomenclature, synthesis, reactivity 2.

Alkenes, nomenclature, preparation (Zaitsevs rule), reactivity (Markovnikovs rule and anti-Markovnikovs rule), reactivity 3. Dienes, polyenes, Diels-Alder reaction, Alkynes, nomenclature, preparation and reactivity 4. Benzene, aromaticity of compounds, electrophilic aromatic substitution, effect of substituents on electrophilic aromatic substitution 5. Nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 6. Alkylhalides, nomenclature, preparation, reactivity of halogenalkanes (substitution, elimination, comparison with arylhalogenates) 7. Alcohols, ethers, nomenclature, preparation, reactivity 8. Aldehydes, ketones, nomenclature, synthesis, reactivity 9. Reaction of aldehydes and ketones with N-bases, O-bases and S-bases, Haloform reaction, oxidation reduction of carbonyl compounds 10. Reactivity of carbonyl compounds with C-H acids, Aldol and Crossed Aldol reactions (-carbon) 11. nomenclature, preparation and their reactivity 12. nomenclature, synthesis and their reactivity 13. nomenclature, synthesis and their reactivity 14. nomenclature, synthesis and their reactivity Carboxylic acids, Acylchlorides, Anhydrides and esters, Amides and nitriles,

15. Reactivity of benzenediazonium salts, azo-coupling reactions of diazonium salts with activated aromatic compounds 16. unsaturated carbonyl compounds 17. 18. 19. Reactivity of ,Oxidations Reductions Molecular rearrangements

20. 21. 22. preparation, reactivity 23. synthesis, reactivity 24. compounds 25.

Addition polymers Condensation polymers Organometallic compounds Amines, nomenclature, Sulphur containing Heterocyclic amines

26. -Dicarbonyl compounds and their reactivity (The Claisen condensation, Malonic ester synthesis, Knoevenagel condensation, Michael addition, Mannich reaction) 27. reactivity 28. classification, synthesis, degradation 29. monosaccharides 30. polysaccharides. 31. 32. 33. preparation, reactivity 34. 35. Phenols - synthesis, Monosaccharides Reactivity of Disaccharides and Lipids and Terpenes Steroids, nomenclature Amino acids, nomenclature, Peptides, synthesis, Proteins Nucleic acids