Syllabus:
- Saturated hydrocarbons (Alkanes)
- Alkanes: Preparation from haloalkanes (Reduction and Wurtz reaction), Decarboxylation, Catalytic hydrogenation of alkene and alkye
- Chemical properties: Substitution reactions (halogenation, nitration, and sulphonation only), oxidation of ethane
- Unsaturated hydrocarbons (Alkenes and Alkynes)
- Alkenes: Preparation of Dehydration of alcohol, Dehydrohalogenation, Catalytic hydrogenation of alkyne
- Chemical properties: Addition reaction with HX (Markovnikov's addition and peroxide effect), H20, O3, H2SO4 only
- Alkynes: Preparation from carbon and hydrogen, 1,2 dibromoethane, chloroform/ iodoform only
- Chemical properties: Addition react/ion with (H2, HX, H2O), Acidic nature (action with Sodium, ammoniacal AgNO3 and ammoniacal Cu2Cl2)
- Test of unsaturation (ethene and ethyne): Bromine water test and Bayer's test
- Comparative studies of physical properties of alkane, alkene and alkyne
- Kolbe's electrolysis methods for the preparation of alkane, alkene and alkynes
