Chem 335 - Winter 1999 -
Organic Chemistry II (1 point each)
1. An appropriate name for the compound below would be
a) 1-bromo-3-carboxybenzene
b) 3-bromo-1-carboxybenzene
c) 3-bromobenzoic acid
d) p-bromobenzenecarboxylic acid
e) none of the above
2. Cyclooctatetraene is not considered aromatic because
a) it is not planar
b) it doesn't have ( 4n + 2 ) pi electrons
c) it isn't unusually stable
d) the pi electrons are not delocalized
e) all of the above
3. An example of an aromatic compound that is a five-membered ring would be
a) cyclopentadiene
b) cyclopentatriene
c) pyridine
d) pyrrole
e) naphthalene
4. Phenol has a pKa about 10, which means that at pH 7 it exists mainly as
a) an anion
b) a cation
c) a zwitterion
d) neutral
5. The C-H bond in propylbenzene that would be most reactive towards free radical halogenation is
a) ortho
b) meta
c) para
d) alpha
e) beta
f) gamma
