Alkyl halides ethers

Alcohols, alkyl halides, ethers, and amines all have functional groups with single bonds. These compounds have many interesting uses in daily life. As you learn how to identify and name these compounds, think about how the intermolecular forces between their molecules affect their properties and uses. 

In this section, you learned how to recognize, name, and draw members of the alcohol, alkyl halide, ether, and amine families. You also learned how to recognize some of the physical properties of these compounds. In the next section, you will learn about families of organic compounds with functional groups that contain the C=0 bond. 

Hydrocarbons, alkyl halides, ethers, many esters... 

If an organic chemist were allowed to choose ten aliphatic compounds with which to be stranded on a desert island, he would almost certainly pick alcohols. From them he could make nearly every other kind of aliphatic compound alkenes, alkyl halides, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, acids, esters, and a host of others. From the alkyl halides, he could make Grignard reagents, and from the reaction between these and the aldehydes and ketones obtain more complicated alcohols and so on. Our stranded chemist would use his alcohols not only as raw materials but frequently as the solvents in which reactions are carried out and from which products are recrystallized. 

The main classes of compounds that are synthesized by the reactions you will study in Chapters 3-11 are alkanes, alkyl halides, ethers, alcohols, and amines. As you learn how to synthesize compounds, you will need to be able to refer to them by name, so you will begin your study of organic chemistry by learning how to name these five classes of compounds. 

Characteristic fragmentation patterns are associated with specific functional groups these can help identify a substance based on its mass spectrum. The patterns were recognized after the mass spectra of many compounds containing a particular functional group were studied. We will look at the fragmentation patterns of alkyl halides, ethers, alcohols, and ketones as examples. 

Some Lewis acids, however, cannot self-complex they require what is known as a cocatalyst such as water, trichloroacetic acid, alkyl halides, ether, or even the monomer itself which is to be polymerized. The cocatalysts form dissociating compounds such as, for example,... 

Notice that alkyl halides, ethers, and alcohols—after forming a molecular ion by losing a lone-pair electron— have the following fragmentation behaviors in common ... 

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