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LABORATORY REPORT
SKO 3023
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 1
EXPERIMENT TITLE
4
SYNTHESIS OF TERT-BUTYL CHLORIDE
GROUP B
NO. ITEMS MARKS
DATE 5/11/2019
LABORATORY 1. Introduction 3
2. Procedure / Methods 1
MK5
3. Results / Worksheets 5
4. Discussion 5
5. Conclusion 2
6. References 1
7. Question / Answer (if any) 2
8. Format 1
TOTAL 20
EXPERIMENT 4: SYNTHESIS OF TERT – BUTYL CHLORIDE
OBJECTIVE
INTRODUCTION
Alkyl halide also called haloalkanes are class of compounds with a halogen atom bonded to
sp3 – hybridized carbon atom. Halogen atom X is more electronegative than carbon atom
making the C-X bond polar and alkyl halide molecules to be more polar than hydrocarbons.
Alkyl halide are categorized into three, which are primary, secondary and tertiary depending
on the number of alkyl substituents attached into carbon atom which the halogen bonded.
Alkyl halide can be prepared from alcohol by reacting them with hydrogen halide .Tertiary
alcohol react readily with HX alone to form alkyl halide. The purpose of this experiment is to
synthesize t-butyl chloride through nucleophilic substitution reaction of t-butyl alcohol with
HCl. This method employs the relative stability of carbocation intermediate formed and thus
The distillation process makes use of difference in boiling points of impurities and desired
alkyl halides.
CALCULATION
= 7.8090 g
7.809 g
No of mole ( CH3 )3COH =
163.522 g
= 0.0478 mol
= 7.8164 g
1.0556 g
= × 100
7.8164 g
= 13.5049 %
DISCUSSION
This lab experiment aimed to produce alkyl halide by reacting the corresponding alcohol with
a hydrogen halide. Since we are using tertiary butyl alcohol, tertiary butyl alcohol molecules
only undergo SN2 mechanism. This is because tertiary alcohols react readily with HX alone to
form alkyl halide while secondary and primary require catalyzation on the halohydrogenation
reaction.
SN1 mechanisms are unimolecular because its slow step is unimolecular. The reaction
proposed involves an initial step where the tertbutyloxonium ion is formed by protonation.
This ion then dissociates to a second intermediate a carbocation - an ion that contains a
positively charged carbon. Since only one species, tert-butyloxonium ion, undergoes a
chemical change in this step, the step is unimolecular. This is the rate-controlling step. The
carbocation (tert-butylcation) being strongly electrophilic then reacts with the nucleophile
chloride ion in a fast step originating the tert-butyl chloride final product Since the
nucleophile is not involved in the rate–determining step of the process a strong nucleophile is
More stable carbocations are formed faster than the less stable ones. That stability is
SN1 mechanism is generally accepted to be correct for the reaction of tertiary and secondary
alcohols with hydrogen halides but not for methyl and primary alcohols as methyl and
value for yields that are vary between 40% and 65%. This might caused by some error.
Firstly, the vigorous shaking of the funnel might not enough since one of the factor to
produce good yield is vigorous shaking or stirring. Second error might happen when we were
separating layer of acid and raw tert-butyl chloride. Precaution need to be taken in this
experiment is the stopper need to be press tightly before start shaking since the pressure
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Organic Syntheses, Inc., (2019), A publication of reliable methods for the preparation of
organic compounds, http://www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=CV1P0144