MODULE 8
Cards (10)
- It is commonly made by the epoxidation of alkenes, often using a peroxy acid (RCO3H) to transfer an oxygen atom.
- It is economically the most important epoxide and is made from the oxidation of ethylene over a silver catalyst.
- It is a cyclic ether with a three-membered ring.
- It is used as a _ to make antifreeze, ethylene glycol, and other useful compounds.
- It is a class of organic compounds that contain oxygen between two alkyl groups.
- It is a type of heterocycle with one or more oxygens in the ring.
- It is a compounds having two alkyl or aryl groups bonded to an oxygen atom, as in the formula R1-0-R2.
- Epoxides can be used to assemble polymers known as _, which are excellent adhesives and useful surface coatings.
- It is similar in structure to alcohols, and both ethers and alcohols are similar in structure to water.
- The _ of the three-membered ring makes an epoxide much more reactive than a typical acyclic ether.