WJEC AS Chemistry 2410QS · 2.7(b)
Preparing alcohols by fermentation; biofuels
- Code
- 2.7(b)
- In
- 2.7 Alcohols and carboxylic acids
- Topic
- 2 AS Unit 2: Energy, Rate and Chemistry of Carbon Compounds
- Course
- AS Chemistry 2410QS
- Board
- WJEC
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Points in 2.7 Alcohols and carboxylic acids
- 2.7(a) Industrial preparation of ethanol from ethene
- 2.7(b) Preparing alcohols by fermentation; biofuels
- 2.7(c) Dehydration reactions of alcohols
- 2.7(d) Classification of alcohols as primary, secondary and tertiary
- 2.7(e) Oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes/carboxylic acids and secondary alcohols to ketones
- 2.7(f) Dichromate(VI) test for primary/secondary alcohols and sodium hydrogencarbonate test for carboxylic acids
- 2.7(g) Reactions of carboxylic acids with bases, carbonates and hydrogencarbonates forming salts
- 2.7(h) Esterification
- 2.7(i) Separation by distillation