Unit III: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: E. D. Gloria Ust - Faculty of Pharmacy Chem200 - Organic Chemistry
Unit III: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: E. D. Gloria Ust - Faculty of Pharmacy Chem200 - Organic Chemistry
Unit III: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: E. D. Gloria Ust - Faculty of Pharmacy Chem200 - Organic Chemistry
Alkanes and
Cycloalkanes
E . D . GLO R IA
U ST FA C U LT Y O F P H A R MA C Y
C H E M20 0 O R GA N I C C H E MI ST RY
Contents
Different kinds of formulas
Chemical Formula-writing and Nomenclature of Organic
Compounds
Isomer
Types of Carbon atoms
Boiling/Melting points; solubility; Conformations of
alkanes and cycloalkanes
Sublimation and melting point determination
Hydrocarbon
s
Saturated
Alkanes
Unsaturated
Alkenes
Alkynes
Arenes
Isomerism
Existence of compounds with the same molecular formula
but with different chemical and physical properties
Constitutional Isomerism
Compounds that have the same molecular formula, but
different structural formulas.
Constitutional Isomers
0
10
75
15
4, 347
25
Conformational Isomers
Isomers having the same connectivity sequence and can
be interconverted by rotation around one or more single
bonds.
Torsional strain
Eclipsed interaction strain
Strain that arises when non-bonded atoms separated by
three bonds are forced from a staggered conformation to
an eclipsed conformation.
Angle strain
The strain due to expansion or compression of bond
angles
Steric strain
the strain due to repulsive interactions when atoms
approach
Geometric isomers
Is a kind of stereoisomerism wherein two or more
compounds have the same molecular formula but have
different arrangement of the atoms in space.