Organic Chemistry II

Professor Carl C. Wamser

Chem 335 - Winter Term

Pre-Quiz 12

(must be done in Blackboard before Fri., Jan. 15, 8:30 am)

1. Bromination of nitrobenzene will give mainly

a. o-bromonitrobenzene
* b. m-bromonitrobenzene
c. p-bromonitrobenzene
d. both o- and p-bromonitrobenzene

2. A Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction will produce

a. an alkylbenzene
b. an alkene
c. an alcohol
* d. a ketone
e. a carboxylic acid

3. Wolff-Kishner reduction is used to convert

a. a ketone to an alcohol
b. an alkene to an alkane
c. an alcohol to an alkane
d. an alkyne to an alkane
* e. a ketone to an alkane

4. The preferred position for electrophilic substitution on naphthalene is

* a. the 1-position
b. the 2-position
c. the bridgehead position

5. The reactivity order in electrophilic substitution is

a. benzene > pyridine > pyrrole
b. benzene > pyrrole > pyridine
c. pyrrole > pyridine > benzene
* d. pyrrole > benzene > pyridine
e. pyridine > pyrrole > benzene
f. pyridine > benzene > pyrrole