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CAIE A-Level Chemistry Reference: A-Level Organic Functional Groups

Practise identifying arenes, phenols, acyl chlorides, amines, amides and amino acids in complex structures.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Chemistry 9701
Level
A2

Exam points

  • recognise phenol only when OH is bonded directly to an arene and acyl chloride from the –COCl group
  • classify an amine from the number of carbon groups bonded to nitrogen, not the carbon bearing the group
  • classify amides by nitrogen substitution and identify both amino and carboxyl groups in an amino acid

Reference—A Level organic functional groups question 1

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Procaine is used as an anaesthetic in medicine. It can be synthesised from methylbenzene in five steps as shown in Fig. 7.1.

Fig. 7.1

Fig. 7.1

Name all the functional groups present in procaine.

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