Deck 3: Acids and Bases

Question 1

Is the indicated compound acting an acid or a base in the following reaction?

A)Acid
B)Base
C)Neither

Answer 1

Base

Question 2

What is an ionic reaction?

Answer 2

It is a reaction in which ions participate as the reactants.

Question 3

Identify the acid and the base and draw the mechanism.

Answer 3

Question 4

Is the indicated compound acting an acid or a base in the following reaction?

A)Acid
B)Base
C)Neither

Question 5

What is wrong with the following arrow? Please draw the correct mechanism.

Question 6

Identify the acid and the base and draw the mechanism.

Question 7

Identify the acid and the base and draw the mechanism.

Question 8

Is the indicated compound acting an acid or a base in the following reaction?

A)Acid
B)Base
C)Neither

Question 9

What is the conjugate base of the following acid?

Question 10

Identify the acid and the base and draw the mechanism.

Question 11

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 12

What is the conjugate base of the following acid?

Question 13

Is the indicated compound acting an acid or a base in the following reaction?

A)Acid
B)Base
C)Neither

Question 14

What is wrong with the following arrow?

A)It should start on the alkyne carbon.
B)It should start on a hydrogen attached to the nitrogen.
C)It should start on the anion on nitrogen,end at the H on the alkyne,and a second arrow should start at the bond between the C and H on the alkyne and end on the terminal carbon of the alkyne.
D)There should be two arrows - one from nitrogen and one from the alkyne carbon.

Question 15

In the following reaction,identify the acid and base as well as the conjugate acid and base.

Question 16

Is the indicated compound acting an acid or a base in the following reaction?

A)Acid
B)Base
C)Neither

Question 17

Draw arrows to indicate the movement of electrons in the following reaction.

Question 18

Draw arrows to indicate the movement of electrons in the following reaction.

Question 19

Provide a definition of a Bronsted-Lowry acid.

Question 20

Identify the acid and the base and draw the mechanism.

Question 21

Predict the position of equilibrium for the following reaction.

A)To the left
B)To the right
C)No reaction

Question 22

Provide the correct K_eq for the following reaction.

Question 23

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 24

What are two factors that influence the acidity of a compound?

Question 25

Predict the position of equilibrium for the following reaction.

A)To the left
B)To the right
C)No reaction

Question 26

Predict the position of equilibrium for the following reaction.

A)To the left
B)To the right
C)No reaction

Question 27

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 28

Why is acetic acid more acidic than ethanol when the acidic proton in both cases is attached to oxygen?

Question 29

Which of the following is the strongest acid?

A)HF
B)HBr
C)HCl
D)HI

Question 30

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 31

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 32

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 33

Identify the most acidic proton on the following compound.

A)Ha
B)Hb
C)Hc
D)Hd

Question 34

Which side will the following acid-base reaction favor?

A)The right
B)The left
C)Neither

Question 35

Could water protonate the following compound?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 36

What is the difference between Ka and pKa?

Question 37

Predict the position of equilibrium for the following reaction.

A)To the left
B)To the right
C)No reaction

Question 38

Identify the most acidic proton on the following compound.

A)Ha
B)Hb
C)Hc
D)Hd

Question 39

Which of the following is the strongest acid?

A)HOMe
B)HSMe
C)HSeMe
D)HTeMe

Question 40

Could water protonate the following compound?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 41

Could water protonate the following compound? HOSO₃^-

A)Yes
B)No

Question 42

Can this base exist in water?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 43

What is the counterion to methoxide in the following compound? NaOMe

A)Na⁺
B)O
C)Me
D)OMe

Question 44

Could ammonia (NH₃)deprotonate CH₄?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 45

What is a cation?

Question 46

Could the amide anion (^- NH₂)deprotonate CH₄?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 47

What is the strongest base that can exist in water?

Question 48

Can this base exist in water?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 49

Can this base exist in water?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 50

Can this base exist in water?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 51

Can this base exist in hexane?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 52

Can this base exist in water?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 53

Could water protonate the following compound?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 54

Could hydroxide deprotonate CH₄?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 55

Could the amide anion (^- NH₂)deprotonate the following compound?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 56

What is the counterion of iodide in the following compound? AgI

A)I
B)Ag⁺
C)gI
D)AI

Question 57

Can this base exist in liquid ammonia?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 58

Explain the leveling effect.

Question 59

Could ammonia (NH₃)deprotonate the following compound?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 60

Could hydroxide deprotonate the following compound?

A)Yes
B)No

Question 61

Which is the best descriptor for the following compound?

A)Bronsted-Lowry Acid
B)Bronsted-Lowry Base
C)Lewis Acid
D)Lewis Base

Question 62

Into which of the following categories does the following compound belong?

A)Bronsted-Lowry Acid
B)Bronsted-Lowry Base
C)Lewis Acid
D)Lewis Base

Question 63

What is the counterion of the t-butyl carbanion in the following compound?

A)tert-butyl
B)C
C)Li⁺
D)H

Question 64

Into which of the following categories does the following compound belong?

A)Bronsted-Lowry Acid
B)Bronsted-Lowry Base
C)Lewis Acid
D)Lewis Base

Question 65

Into which of the following categories does the following compound belong?

A)Bronsted-Lowry Acid
B)Bronsted-Lowry Base
C)Lewis Acid
D)Lewis Base

Question 66

For the following reaction,draw the mechanism.

Question 67

In the following reaction,identify the Lewis acid and the Lewis base.

Question 68

Into which of the following categories does the following compound belong?

A)Bronsted-Lowry Acid
B)Bronsted-Lowry Base
C)Lewis Acid
D)Lewis Base

Question 69

For the following reaction,draw the mechanism.

Question 70

For the following reaction,draw the mechanism.

Question 71

What is the counterion of t-butoxide in the following compound?

A)K⁺
B)O
C)tert-butoxide
D)tert-butyl

Question 72

Into which of the following categories does the following compound belong?

A)Bronsted-Lowry Acid
B)Bronsted-Lowry Base
C)Lewis Acid
D)Lewis Base