Organic halides physical properties

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. 

Unless modified by the presence of some other functional group, the physical properties of the aryl halides are much like those of the corresponding alkyl halides. Chlorobenzene and bromobenzene, for example, have boiling points very nearly the same as those of n-hexyl chloride and n-hexyl bromide like the alkyl halides, the aryl halides are insoluble in water and soluble in organic solvents. 

Discuss the chemical and physical properties of organic halides. 

It is easiest to talk about properties of organic compounds containing functional groups by comparing those compounds with alkanes, whose properties were discussed in Chapter 22. Table 23-2 lists some of the physical properties of certain alkanes and alkyl halides. 

As a class, sulfonic acids (RSO3H) are the strongest uncharged organic acids. Their acidities are similar to those for the strong mineral acids. Selected physical properties for these materials are given in Tables 3, 4A and 4B. Selected physical properties for the alkane-sulfonyl halides and anhydrides in common commercial and laboratory use are provided in Table 5. 

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