Question CI.25: Butyraldehyde is a clear liquid solvent with an unpleasant o...
Butyraldehyde is a clear liquid solvent with an unpleasant odor.
It has a low boiling point and is highly flammable. Butyraldehyde has a density of 0.802 g/mL. (7.4, 7.8, 8.6, 12.3, 12.4)
a. Draw the condensed structural formula for butyraldehyde.
b. Draw the line-angle formula for butyraldehyde.
c. What is the IUPAC name of butyraldehyde?
d. Draw the condensed structural formula for the alcohol that is produced when butyraldehyde is reduced.
e. Write the balanced chemical equation for the complete combustion of butyraldehyde.
f. How many grams of oxygen gas are needed to completely react with 15.0 mL of butyraldehyde?
g. How many liters of carbon dioxide gas are produced at STP from the reaction in part f?

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a. \begin{matrix} & O & \\ & || & \\ CH_3— CH_2 —CH_2 — & C & —H \end{matrix}
b.
c. butanal
d. \mathrm{CH}_3-\mathrm{CH}_2-\mathrm{CH}_2-\mathrm{CH}_2-\mathrm{OH}
e. 2 \mathrm{C}_4 \mathrm{H}_8 \mathrm{O}+11 \mathrm{O}_2 \stackrel{\Delta}{\longrightarrow} 8 \mathrm{CO}_2+8 \mathrm{H}_2 \mathrm{O}+ energy
f. 29.4 \mathrm{~g} of \mathrm{O}_2
g. 14.9 \mathrm{~L} of \mathrm{CO}_2