Practise IB Chemistry SL 3.3 with questions on radical notation, homolytic fission and initiation, propagation and termination in substitution.
Antioxidants are a type of food additive.
Antioxidants such as BHT and 3-BHA prevent the unwanted reactions of free radicals. State what a free radical is.
Alkenes, such as A (shown below), are important intermediates in the petrochemical industry because they undergo addition reactions to produce a wide variety of products, such as the conversion shown below.
Another way to make B is the reaction shown below.
State the conditions required for this reaction to occur.
Outline why it would give a poor yield of the desired product.
Chlorine undergoes many reactions.
State the type of reaction occurring when ethane reacts with chlorine to produce chloroethane.