Edexcel GCE In Chemistry (9CH0) Paper 02 [Document subtitle] JUNE 2023

[Date] Pearson Edexcel
GCE In
Chemistry
(9CH0) Paper 02
[Document subtitle]




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, Answer ALL questions.

Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you
change your mind about an answer, put a line through the box and
then mark your new answer with a cross .

1 This question is about some organic compounds.
(a) Draw the skeletal formula of 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane.
(1)




(b) What is the general formula for a cycloalkene?
(1)
A CnH2n–2

B CnH2n

C CnH2n+1

D CnH2n+2


(c) A student is asked to devise a laboratory synthesis of 1,2-
dichloroethane. The student suggests reacting ethane with chlorine
in the presence of ultraviolet radiation.

Give two reasons why this is not a good method to prepare 1,2-
dichloroethane. (2)

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