A-Level CAIE Chemistry AS 13.2.1—Organic reaction terminology Question Bank

• Interpret/use: the following terminology associated with types of organic compounds and reactions:

- (a) homologous series

- (b) saturated and unsaturated

- (c) homolytic and heterolytic fission

- (d) free radical, initiation, propagation, termination

- (e) nucleophile, electrophile, nucleophilic, electrophilic

- (f) addition, substitution, elimination, hydrolysis, condensation

- (g) oxidation and reduction (in equations for organic redox reactions, the symbol [O] can be used to represent one atom of oxygen

- from an oxidising agent and the symbol [H] to represent one atom of hydrogen from a reducing agent)