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Catalytic Hydrogenation
« on: June 29, 2010, 11:39:37 PM »
A compound with the formula C5H6 takes up 2 moles of H2 on catalytic hydrogenation & a compound of C6H10 takes up 1 mole of H2 on reduction. What would be a possible structure for each of these examples?

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Re: Catalytic Hydrogenation
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2010, 12:25:10 AM »
C6H10 is an alkene with the double bond present in any place in the molecule.
C5H6 is for sure a diene. At first I thought it's an alkyne, but alkynes don't have such a general formula. This formula matches with that of a ring. With five carbons, I'd place my bet on cyclopentadiene.
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Re: Catalytic Hydrogenation
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2010, 12:33:53 AM »
Thanks, that's what I was thinking for the C6H10, but really was unsure of the C5H6 example. 

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Re: Catalytic Hydrogenation
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2010, 02:01:06 AM »
C6H10 could be cyclohexene and C5H6, as suggested by SVXX, could be cyclopentadiene.

But you can always come up with different structures taking into consideration isomers of the above compounds.
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