O Levels Organic Chemistry: Common Conceptual Mistakes by Students

15 Aug

Posted by: sean in: Chemistry Guidebooks, Chemistry Notes & Tips

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During the Organic Chemistry Mastery Workshop 2009 in July, we noticed several misconceptions by students that surfaced again for this current batch of GCE O Levels students, just like the previous years’ batches.

Just a quick note on 2 common errors (mentioned in Up Your Chemistry Grades Now) that you would need to be aware of, so that you can avoid them at all cost.

Hope you will find this information useful to you.

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5 Responses

Jack
25|Aug|2009 1

I thought Carboxylic Acid starts with 0?

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rida
04|Sep|2009 2

i am in o1,i have completed d1 and d2,but my concepts are very weak but i dont know what i have to do know,plz help me sir.

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Daniyal
16|Sep|2009 3

its good for student to prepare themselves for chemistry

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izhar
17|May|2010 4

Dear Sir ,
you have said that alkane , alkene and c-c are not considered the functional group than which is the functional group.
kindly reply soon
I will b waiting …….

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Saud Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 am
well i am just a student like you but i gues i can answer this thing

the functional group in organic chemistry gives us the initiation point to start reading a formula of a compound…….. it is different with different homologous series…..

for alkanes we get that the functional group is usually the alkyl group that has priority over others so we start reading the formula from the nearest point to the functional group……

when we talk about the unsaturated hydrocarbons we mean to indicating those that have a double or triple bond between their carbon atoms ……

in these hydrocarbons the bond referring the compound as unsaturated has priority over all other functional groups…….

similar is the case with the functional group of alcohols and carboxylic acids …

in short trying to come to the point you raised, the functional group in hydrocarbons is the part which depicts its difference from other hydrocarbons….SIGNIFICANTLY……

i hope i didn’t humiliate you ….

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