Organic Chemistry Conversion Reactions Quiz

What is the result of oxidizing an alcohol?

• It becomes a ketone.

• It becomes an aldehyde.

• It becomes an alkane.

• It becomes an amine.

Which reagent is used in the Wurtz reaction to increase carbon atoms?

• Copper iodide

• Sodium and ether

• Lithium aluminum hydride

• Potassium dichromate

What is the result of using Corey-House reaction?

• Increase in even number of carbon atoms

• Increase in odd number of carbon atoms

• Decrease in carbon atoms

• Conversion of alcohols to aldehydes

What is the purpose of using soda lime in a conversion reaction?

• To convert alcohols to aldehydes

• To convert alkanes to alkenes

• To increase the number of carbon atoms

• To reduce carboxylic acids to alkanes

Which reagent is used to convert a single bond to a double bond?

• Nickel and hydrogen

• Sodium amide

• Alcoholic potassium hydroxide

• Lithium aluminum hydride

Which reagent is used to convert a triple bond to a double bond?

• Nickel and hydrogen

• Sodium amide

• Alcoholic potassium hydroxide

• Lithium aluminum hydride

What is the result of adding nitrous acid to an amine?

• It becomes an alcohol.

• It becomes an amide.

• It becomes an alkane.

• It becomes a nitro compound.

Which reagent is used to convert an alcohol to an alkyl halide?

• Soda lime

• Copper iodide

• Lucas reagent

• Sodium amide

What is the result of adding fuming nitric acid to an alkane?

• It becomes a nitro compound.

• It becomes an alcohol.

• It becomes an alkene.

• It becomes an amine.

Which reagent is used to convert an amide to an amine?

• Bromine and potassium hydroxide

• Soda lime

• Nickel and hydrogen

• Lucas reagent