Organic chemistry

Crude oil and the alkanes, combustion and cracking, then alkenes, alcohols, carboxylic acids, esters and polymers for separate Chemistry, with the formula and mass calculations that go with them.

Start: Crude oil, alkanes and fractional distillationAbout 22 min, free

Lessons

Practise and test

Mixed reviewQuestions mixed across your lessons.

By the end you can

Use the general formulae of alkanes, alkenes and alcohols to name compounds and count their atoms
Explain how fractional distillation separates crude oil and how chain length affects the properties of a fraction
Balance combustion equations and find the missing product of a cracking reaction
Predict the products of addition reactions, alcohol reactions and esterification (Chemistry only)
Draw the link between a monomer and its addition polymer, and describe condensation and natural polymers (Chemistry only)
Calculate Mr, percentage of carbon by mass and masses of carbon dioxide from combustion

Revision notes

Crude oil, alkanes, fractional distillation and cracking

Specifications

AQA 8462 (Chemistry) 4.7
AQA 8464 (Combined Trilogy) 5.7
Pearson Edexcel 1CH0 and 1SC0 Topics 8 and 9
OCR Gateway J248 and J250 C6.2

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