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Chemical Analysis, Organic Chemistry and Materials

Reactions of alkenes, and combustion

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Overview

Addition reactions of ethene, propene and but-1-ene with bromine and their products, using bromine water to tell an alkane from an alkene, and the complete combustion of alkanes and alkenes as oxidation, with balanced equations.

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Key term

Write the balanced equation for the reaction between ethene and bromine.

Key term

Describe what happens to the double bond when ethene reacts with bromine.

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  1. 1

    Name the product formed when ethene reacts with bromine.

    Model answer

    1,2-dibromoethane.

  2. 2

    Write the balanced equation for the reaction between ethene and bromine.

    Model answer

    C₂H₄ + Br₂ → C₂H₄Br₂.

  3. 3

    Describe what happens to the double bond when ethene reacts with bromine.

    Model answer

    The double bond opens to become a single bond, and one bromine atom joins to each of the two carbon atoms.

  4. 4

    What type of reaction takes place between an alkene and bromine?

    Model answer

    An addition reaction, because the two reactant molecules join to form a single product.

  5. 5

    Name the product formed when propene reacts with bromine.

    Model answer

    1,2-dibromopropane.

  6. 6

    Give the formula of the product formed when propene reacts with bromine.

    Model answer

    C₃H₆Br₂.

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