Question

Organic chemistry question

Answer 1

A nice question about acidity

Answer 2

I believe the answer would be C

Answer 3

I am not entirely sure, though. Esters, for sure, are more acidic than alkanes, and I choose option C over option A because I having more than one branched functional group weakens the acidity of the structure.

Answer 4

What do you think?

Answer 5

Let's look at the alkane first. like it would be so hard to pull off a Hydrogen form the end because that molecule wouldn't really be stable. well.. unless it was let's say if we used like grinard reagent. I think actually that the Ka for this molecule would be so small and, correspondingly it's pKa so high that, that proton wouldn't even be able to be pulled off.

so like we obviously know that that one isn't possible so that's out.

Answer 6

@dessyj1 have you heard of ARIO?

Answer 7

for ranking compounds based on acidity we take into account ARIO so in order it would be:

Atom
Resonance
Induction
Orbitals

Answer 8

I have not heard of ARIO. My knowledge of organic chemistry only goes a far as high school.

Answer 9

Those compounds are organic compounds, right?

Answer 10

You are right that the first molecule I would be acidic; but let's also look at the third compound

and yes you're also right they're organic