OIL PRODUCTS
and ORGANIC
CHEMISTRY NOTES INDEX
(GCSE level notes)
INDEX of pages on
Oil, its many useful products, environmental problems and an introduction to
organic chemistry - Doc
Brown's revision notes for GCSE, IGCSE, O Level, KS4 science-chemistry courses
The organic chemistry of carbon compounds is so important that it
forms a separate branch of chemistry. A huge variety of carbon compounds is
possible because carbon atoms can form stable chains and rings linked by C-C
bonds and bonding with atoms such as nitrogen and oxygen.
Organic chemistry gets its name from the fact that the main
sources of organic compounds are living, or once-living materials from plants
and animals. Fossil fuels, oil and gas, are a major source of feedstock for the
petrochemical industry in which chemists are able to take organic molecules and
modify them in many ways to make new and useful materials such as polymers,
pharmaceuticals, perfumes and flavourings, dyes, detergents and many other
products we take for granted.
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Index of Oil & Organic Chemistry Pages
(for GCSE, IGCSE and O Level students)
1.
FOSSIL FUELS,
coal, oil, natural gas and peat and the Carbon Cycle
2.
Fractional distillation of crude
OIL and the uses of refined fractions,
what is a good fuel?
3.
ALKANES - saturated hydrocarbons,
structure, names,
combustion, reaction with chlorine

4.
Fossil fuel pollution and climate
change notes index,
including incomplete combustion, carbon monoxide, sulfur/nitrogen oxides, acid rain, greenhouse
effect, global warming, climate change, carbon footprint
A
local acid rain project !!!
5. ALKENES - unsaturated hydrocarbons
-
reaction with bromine & hydrogen
6. CRACKING
- a problem of supply and demand, other products
7A-7G. Addition polymers: poly(ethene),
poly(propene), polystyrene, PVC, PTFE - structure and uses
7H-7J.
More on the
uses of plastics, issues with using plastics, solutions and recycling
methods
8. Why so many series of organic compounds?
- homologous series
9a. Alcohols, Ethanol, manufacture,
physical properties & chemical reactions
AND 9b.
Biofuels & alternative fuels,
hydrogen, biogas, biodiesel
10a. Carboxylic acids - molecular
structure, chemistry and
uses
AND 10b. Esters, chemistry and uses
including perfumes, solvents
11. Condensation polymers, Nylon,
Terylene/PET, comparing thermoplastics, fibres, thermosets
12. Natural molecules - carbohydrates
- sugars - polymers - starch and DNA
13. Amino
acids, proteins, polypeptides, enzymes & chromatography
14. Natural vegetable oils,
fats, margarine, emulsions and soaps
15. Vitamins,
drugs, medicines, E numbers, food additives, cooking
chemistry!
16. Ozone depletion,
CFC's and free radicals
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'Easy' Oil and Organic Chemistry gap-fill
worksheets
(originally written for previous GCSE courses, but still useful)
Word-fill quiz
"Origin of Crude Oil"
Word-fill quiz
"Crude Oil and its Fractional distillation"
Word-fill quiz
"Getting products from crude oil"
Word-fill quiz
"The Uses of the Fractions from Crude Oil"
Word-fill quiz
"More on hydrocarbon molecules"
Word-fill quiz
"The uses of the fractions from crude
oil and pollution problems"
Word-fill quiz
"The chemistry of burning
fossil fuels"
Word-fill quiz
"Air pollution chemistry and
burning fossil fuels"
Word-fill quiz
"Reducing air pollution from
power stations"
Word-fill quiz
"Reducing air pollution from
cars"
Word-fill quiz
"Burning Fossil Fuels and Environmental Problems"
Word-fill quiz
"Making Alcohol and Uses of Alcohol"
Word-fill quiz
"Useful Products - Food Additives"
Word-fill quiz
"Cracking Oil to make Alkanes and Alkenes"
Word-fill quiz
"Cracking oil fractions and uses of
products"
Word-fill quiz
"Cracking, fuels and polymers"
Word-fill quiz
"More on uses of products from
cracking"
Word-fill quiz
"Examples of
alkanes and alkenes and a test for alkenes"
Word-fill quiz
"Introduction to Polymers and Plastics"
Word-fill quiz
"Making and using polymers"
Word-fill quiz
"Vegetable Oils"
Word-fill quiz
"Hydrogenated vegetable oil and food
additives"
AND a
BIG crossword
puzzle on our oil based economy! (Crossword puzzle answers)
Some sections of material science that
may overlap with organic chemistry
NANOCHEMISTRY
Part 1.
General introduction to nanoscience
and commonly used terms explained
Part 2.
NANOCHEMISTRY - an introduction and potential
applications
Part 3.
Uses of Nanoparticles of titanium(IV) oxide, fat and silver
Part 4.
From fullerenes & bucky balls to carbon nanotubes
Part 5.
Graphene and
Fluorographene
Part 6.
Cubic and hexagonal boron nitride BN
Part 7.
Problems, issues and
implications associated with
using nanomaterials
SMART MATERIALS
Part 1
CHROMOGENIC MATERIALS - Thermochromic,
Photochromic & Electrochromic Materials
Part 2
SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS e.g. Nitinol &
Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys
Part 3
SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS, pH and
temperature sensitive-responsive polymers, self-healing materials
Part 4
LYCRA-SPANDEX
Part 5
High
performance polymers like KEVLAR
Part 6
GORETEX, THINSULATE and TEFLON-PTFE
Part 7
PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT (PIEZOELECTRIC
MATERIALS) & PHOTOMECHANICAL MATERIALS
Part 8
CARBON FIBRES
A warning! Most of the
chemistry described on these pages, as well as most developed national
economies, is based on crude oil at the moment, and, will no doubt to continue
to do so for some time - but NOT FOREVER. Unfortunately oil won't last forever
and much of our 'oil based economy' is not sustainable in the future and the
potential dangers to the planet from 'climate change' i.e. the global warming
from the 'Greenhouse Effect' aided by fossil fuel burning also make
uncomfortable thinking. As the world population increases, oil based agriculture
is not going to be able to feed everyone. Food production uses huge amounts of
energy in the production of artificial-synthetic fertilisers, transportation and
machinery on farms.
Therefore, one would hope that more 'green sustainable'
economic systems will be developed including alternative energy supplies not
based on fossil fuels and major changes in agricultural practices to be much
less reliant on 'oil' and 'greener' methodology in the chemical industry itself.
It is fair to point out that crude oil is an extremely valuable chemical raw
material and produces really useful products from smart material plastics to
lifesaving drugs and components in many consumer products that are genuinely
useful to improving the quality of our lives. therefore burning it is its
crudest possible use. In the long-run it should be conserved and used much more
sparingly for specific and necessary purposes.
Multiple Choice Quizzes and Worksheets
KS4 Science GCSE/IGCSE m/c QUIZ on Oil Products
(easier-foundation-level)
KS4 Science GCSE/IGCSE m/c QUIZ on Oil Products
(harder-higher-level)
KS4 Science GCSE/IGCSE m/c QUIZ on other aspects of Organic Chemistry
and
3 linked easy Oil Products gap-fill quiz worksheets
ALSO gap-fill ('word-fill') exercises
originally written for ...
... AQA GCSE Science
Useful products from
crude oil
AND
Oil, Hydrocarbons
& Cracking
etc.
... OCR 21st C GCSE Science
Worksheet gap-fill C1.1c Air
pollutants etc ...
... Edexcel 360 GCSE Science
Crude Oil and its Fractional distillation
etc ...
... each set are interlinked,
so clicking on one of the above leads to a sequence of several quizzes
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