Practice Questions
Eight questions covering mechanisms, reagents and acid–base reasoning. Each answer explains itself.
Quiz
Question 1: Which reagent oxidises a primary alcohol to an aldehyde and stops there?
Question 2: A secondary alkyl halide in a polar aprotic solvent with a strong nucleophile mostly gives which mechanism?
Question 3: Hydroboration–oxidation of an alkene adds water with which selectivity?
Question 4: Which amino acid has a side-chain pKa closest to physiological pH?
Question 5: In the Diels–Alder reaction, how many π bonds break?
Question 6: Which reagent reduces an ester all the way to a primary alcohol?
Question 7: A base will deprotonate an acid when…
Question 8: Which conformation of cyclohexane is the most stable?