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HL Paper 1

Which technique is used to determine the bond lengths and bond angles of a molecule?

A.     X-ray crystallography

B.     Infrared (IR) spectroscopy

C.     Mass spectroscopy

D.     1H NMR spectroscopy




Which technique can be used to identify bond length and bond angle?

A.     1H NMR spectroscopy

B.     IR spectroscopy

C.     Mass spectroscopy

D.     X-ray crystallography




Which property explains why tetramethylsilane, Si(CH3)4, can be used as a reference standard in 1H NMR spectroscopy?

A. It has a high boiling point.

B. It is a reactive compound.

C. All its protons are in the same chemical environment.

D. It gives multiple signals.




What information can be deduced from the splitting pattern of 1H NMR signals?

A.  total number of hydrogen atoms in a compound

B.  number of hydrogen atoms on adjacent atom(s)

C.  functional group on which hydrogen atoms are located

D.  number of hydrogen atoms in a particular chemical environment




Which compound produces the following 1H NMR spectrum?


SDBS, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).


A.  Propane

B.  Propanone

C.  Propanal

D.  2,2-dimethylpropane




Which technique may be used to find the bond lengths and bond angles within a molecule?

 

A.   X-ray crystallography

B.   1H NMR spectroscopy

C.   Infrared spectroscopy

D.   Mass spectroscopy




Which is the 1H NMR spectrum of tetramethylsilane, TMS, (CH3)4Si?




Which can be identified using infrared (IR) spectroscopy?

A. functional groups

B. molar mass

C. 3-D configuration

D. bond angle




Which would be the most effective method to distinguish between liquid propan-1-ol and propan-2-ol?

A.     Observation of colour change when warmed with acidified potassium dichromate

B.     Determination of m/z value of molecular ion in the mass spectrum

C.     Determination of percentage composition

D.     1H NMR spectroscopy




Which compound gives this 1H NMR spectrum?

A. CH3CH2OCH2CH3

B. CH3CH2OH

C. CH3CH2CH3

D. CH3CH2CH2OH




Which compound produces the following 1H NMR spectrum?

[Spectral Database for Organic Compounds, SDBS. SDBS Compounds and Spectral Search. [graph] Available at:
https://sdbs.db.aist.go.jp [Accessed 3 January 2019].]


A.  propanal

B.  propanone

C.  propane

D.  methlypropane




Which compound with the molecular formula C4H8O has this high resolution H1NMR?

From: libretexts.org. Courtesy of Chris Schaller, Professor (Chemistry)
at College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University.

 

A.  but-3-en-2-ol, CH2=CHCH(OH)CH3

B.  butanal, CH3CH2CH2CHO

C.  butanone, CH3COCH2CH3

D.  but-3-en-1-ol, CH2=CHCH2CH2OH 




Which substance has the following 1H NMR spectrum?

SDBS, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology.


A.  Propane

B.  Propanal

C.  Butanoic acid

D.  Ethyl ethanoate