TS Inter 2nd Year Chemistry Notes Chapter 11 Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

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TS Inter 2nd Year Chemistry Notes 11th Lesson Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

→ Alkyl/aryl halides may be classified as mono, di or polyhalogen (tri-tetra, etc) compounds depending upon whether they contain one, two or more halogen atoms in their structures.

→ Halogen compounds containing sp3 C – X bond (X = F, Cl, Br, I) include Alkyl halides (haloalkanes), Allylic halides and Benzylic halides.

→ Alkyl halides are further classified as pri-mary (1°). secondary (2°) or tertiary (3°) according to the nature of the carbon to which the halogen is attached.

→ Halogen compounds containing sp2 C – X bond include Vinylic halides and Aryl halides.

→ Dihaloalkanes are called geminal (gem) halides if halogen atoms are present in the same carbon atom and vicinal (vie) halides if halogen atoms are present on adjacent carbon atoms.

→ Since halogen atoms are more electronegative than carbon, the carbon-halogen bond of alkyl halide is polarised.

→ C – X bond length increases from C – F to C – I.

→ Alkyl halides are prepared from alcohols on reaction with concentrated halogen acids (HX), PCl3, PCl5 Or SOCl2.

→ Free radical chlorination or bromination of alkanes gives a complex mixture of isomeric mono and polyhaloalkanes.
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→ Aryl chlorides or bromides can be prepared by reaction of the hydrocarbon with chlorine or bromine at room temperature in the presence of halogen carrier like Fe, AlCl3 or SbCl5.
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→ When an aromatic primary amine reacts with nitrous acid (NaNO2 + HX) at 0 – 5°C, a diazonium salt is formed. The diazonium salt solution reacts with cuprous chloride or cuprous bromide-, the diazonium group is replaced by – Cl or – Br. This reaction is known as Sandmeyer s reaction.

TS Inter 2nd Year Chemistry Notes Chapter 11 Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

→ When diazonium salt solution is shaken with KI solution the diazonium group is replaced by iodine.

→ Addition of bromine in CCl4 to an alkene results in discharge of reddish brown colour of bromine. This is an important test for the detection of unsaturation in a molecule.

→ Alkyl fluoride is prepared by heating an alkyl chloride or bromide in the presence of a metallic fluoride such as AgF2, Hg2F2 etc (swarts reaction).
CH3Br + AgF → CH3F + AgBr

→ Haloalkanes are only very slightly soluble in water.

→ The chemical reactions of haloalkanes may be divided into three categories.

  • Nucleophilic substitution
  • Elimination reactions
  • Reaction with metals.

→ The order of reactivity of alkyl halides towards SN1 and SN2 reactions is as follows :

  • For SN2 reaction : CH3X > primary halide > secondary halide > tertiary halide.
  • For SN1 reaction: tertiary halide > secondary halide > primary halide > CH3X.

→ A carbon atom joined to four different atoms or groups is called an asymmetric carbon or stereocentre or chirality centre.

→ The objects which are non-superimposable on their mirror images are said to be chiral and this property is known as chirality. Objects which are superimposable on their mirror images are called achiral.

→ Optical activity is the ability of a chiral sub-stance to rotate the plane of plane-polarised light.

→ The three dimensional arrangement of atoms or groups at a chirality centre is called the absolute configuration.

→ The stereoisomers related to each other as non-superimposable mirror images are called enantiomers.

→ SN2 reactions of optically active alkyl halides are accompanied by inversion of configuration.

→ SN1 reactions of optically active alkyl halides are accompanied by racemisation.

→ Zaitsev rule (Saytzef rule) : “In dehydro- halogenation reactions, the preferred product is that alkene which has greater number of alkyl groups attached to the doubly bonded carbon atoms”.

→ Alkyl magnesium halides (RMgX) are known as Grignard reagents.

TS Inter 2nd Year Chemistry Notes Chapter 11 Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

→ A number of polyhalogen compounds e.g., dichloromethane, chloroform, iodoform, CCl4, freon and DDT have many industrial applications.

→ Chloroform is slowly oxidised by air in the presence of light to a very poisonous gas, carbonyl chloride, also known as phosgene, COCl2. Hence chloroform is stored in closed amber coloured bottles completely filled so that air is kept out.

→ Dichlorodifluoro methane (CCl2F2) is known as Freon 12.

→ Paul Muller discovered the effectiveness of DDT as an insecticide.

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