Chemistry
(i) What type of reaction takes place between ethane and chlorine to form monochloroethane?
(ii) The reaction between ethene and chlorine forms only one product. Name the type of this reaction.
(iii)
- Draw the structural formula of ethene.
- What is the feature of the ethene structure which allows ethene to react with chlorine in the way it does?
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Answer
(i) Substitution reaction
(ii) Halogenation Reaction
(iii) Structural formula of Ethene:
- The carbon-carbon double bond allows ethene to participate in an addition reaction with chlorine.
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