Organic analysis

• Alkene


  Bromine water

  orange colour goes colourless
• Aldehyde


  Fehlings solution

  red precipitate

  Tollen‘s reagent

  silver mirror
• Carboxylic acid


  Sodium carbonate

  effervescence
• Primary and secondary alcohols


  Sodium dichromate and sulphuric acid

  orange to green
• Chloroalkane


  Warm with silver nitrate

  slow formation of white precipitate of AgCl
• What is the fingerprint region


  1500-400cm-1
• How to identify spectra


  Compare spectra to that of known spectra

  exact match to that of know spectra tells you what the spectra is