WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

M.Sc Chemistry,Long test-III

PCH/CO/02 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-I

Max. marks = 50

Part – A Max. marks = 25

1. Give the mechanism or the following (15)

(a) Baeyer- Villinger Oxidation
(b) Benzil-Benzilic Acid
(c) Benzidine- Semidine reaction
2. Give reactions
Cleavage o 1,2 glycols using periodic acid, oxidation using SeO2 (10)

Part-B Max. marks = 25

1. The activation energy or chair to chair lipping in cyclohexane is ----------------(1)

2. What is the preferred conformation of ethane? Why? (3)
3. Discuss the various conformation and relative stability o cyclohexane (15)
4. Draw the conormations o n-butane and discuss their relative stabilities? (6)
Sci-Tech Encyclopedia:

Nuclear quadrupole resonance

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A selective absorption phenomenon observable in a wide variety of polycrystalline

compounds containing nonspherical atomic nuclei when placed in a magnetic radio-
frequency field. Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) is very similar to nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR), and was originated as an inexpensive (no stable homogeneous large
magnetic field is required) alternative way to study nuclear moments. It later gained a
modest popularity. See also Magnetic resonance; Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

In the simplest case, for example, 35Cl in solid Cl2, NQR is associated with the precession
of the angular momentum I (and the nuclear magnetic dipole moment μ) of the nucleus,
depicted in the illustration as a flat ellipsoid of rotation, around the symmetry axis (taken
as the z axis) of the Cl2 molecule fixed in the crystalline solid. The precession, with
constant angle θ between the nuclear axis and symmetry axis of the molecule, is due to
the torque which the inhomogeneous molecular electric field exerts on the nucleus of
electric quadrupole moment eQ. The absorption occurs classically when the frequency of
the rf field and that of the precessing motion of the angular momentum coincide.

Interaction of 35CI nucleus with the electric field of a Cl2 molecule.

NQR spectra have been observed in the approximate range 1–1000 MHz. Most of the
NQR work has been on molecular crystals. For such crystals the coupling constants found
do not differ very much from those measured for the isolated molecules in microwave
spectroscopy. The most precise nuclear information which may be extracted from NQR
data are quadrupole moment ratios of isotopes of the same element. If values for the axial
gradient of the molecular electric field can be estimated from atomic fine structure data,
then fair values of the quadrupole moment may be obtained. However, it has also proved
very productive to use the quadrupole nucleus as a probe of bond character and
orientation and crystalline electric fields and lattice sites, and extensive data have been
accumulated in this area. See also Microwave spectroscopy.