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identification of an organic unknown
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Identification of an organic unknown Aim: My aim for this investigation is to identify doing simple chemical tests of different organic compounds containing one of the following functional groups such as: * Alkenes * Primary alcohol * Tertiary alcohol * Aldehyde * Ketone * Carboxylic acid * Ester * Phenol I will take each of the functional group and identify a test to see if the functional group is present in a unknown organic compound. Alkenes: Alkenes are unsaturated hydrocarbons which at least have 1 carbon-carbon double bond (C=C). They have the general formula of CnH2n with the structural formula of: CnH2n . They have a planar shape with bond angles of 120. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkene) The test I am going to do for alkene to identify if the alkene is present or not is a bromine water test, which means if the alkene is present it will decolourised bromine water. Method: * First I will add few drops of bromine water...
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