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Important Chemical Equations For Chemistry Class 12

October 21, 20170 Comments

Here are some important chemical reactions which every student of class 12 must have a thorough understanding of.

Sandmeyer Reaction:

A chemical reaction which is used to synthesize aryl halides from aryl diazonium salts. This reaction is a method for substitution of an aromatic amino group by preparing diazonium salt that is followed by its displacement and copper salts often catalyze it.


The Br, Cl and Cn nucleophiles can be easily present in the benzene ring of benzene diazonium salt in the presence of Copper ion.

Gattermann Reaction:

Bromine and Chlorine can be present in the benzene ring by preparing the benzene diazonium salt solution with similar halogen acid present with copper powder.


Balz-Schiemann Reaction:

When arene-diazonium chloride is prepared with fluoroboric acid, arene diazonium fluoroborate is precipitated and decomposes to yield aryl fluoride which on heating.


Finkelstein Reaction:

Alkyl iodides are prepared easily by the reaction of alkyl chlorides with Nal in dry acetone.


Swarts Reaction:

When alkyl chloride is heated in the presence of a metallic fluoride like AgF, Hg2F2, SbF3 or CoF2, we get alkyl fluorides.





Friedel-Crafts alkylation Reaction:
Benzene is prepared with an alkyl halide in the presence of anhydrous aluminum chloride to give Alkylbenzene.
Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction:
We get acyl benzene when an acyl halide is reacted with benzene in the presence of Lewis acids.
Reimer-Tiemann Reaction:
When preparing phenol with chloroform in the presence of sodium hydroxide, -CHO group is present at the ortho position of the benzene ring which results into salicylaldehyde.


Kolbe’s Reaction:

Phenol reacts with sodium hydroxide to give sodium phenoxide which then reacts with carbon dioxide in acidic medium to give hydroxybenzoic acid.


Rosenmund Reduction:

When Acyl chloride is hydrogenated to an aldehyde over a catalyst, known as Rosenmund catalyst which is either palladium or bariumsulfate.

Stephen reaction:

Nitriles with stannous chloride in the presence of hydrochloric acid reduced to the corresponding imine and give the corresponding aldehyde after hydrolysis.


Etard reaction:

Chromyl chloride oxidizes methyl group to get chromium complex which on hydrolysis provides corresponding benzaldehyde.


Gatterman – Koch reaction:
Benzene is prepared with carbon monoxide and hydrogen chloride in the presence of anhydrous aluminum chloride to give benzaldehyde.


Clemmensen Reduction:

Carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones on treatment with zinc-amalgam and concentrated hydrochloric acid reduced to CH2 group.


Wolff Kishner Reduction:

Carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones on treatment with hydrazine which on heating with sodium hydroxide in a high boiling solvent (ethylene glycol) reduced to CH2 group.


Tollens’ test:
Heating an aldehyde with fresh prepared ammoniacal silver nitrate solution produces a bright silver mirror due to the formation of silver metal.


Fehling’s test:

Fehling’s solution A (aqueous copper sulfate) and Fehling solution B (alkaline sodium potassium tartrate) are mixed in equal amounts before the test. A reddish brown precipitate is obtained when an aldehyde is heated with Fehling’s reagent.


Aldol reaction:

Aldehydes and ketones having one α-hydrogen undergo a reaction in the presence of dilute alkali as the catalyst to produce β-hydroxy aldehydes or β-hydroxy ketones.

Aldol condensation:

Aldol and Ketol lose water to provide α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds which are aldol condensation products.


Cross aldol condensation:
Aldol condensation is carried out between two different aldehydes and ketones. It gives a mixture of four products if both of them includes α-hydrogen atoms.


Cannizzaro reaction:

Aldehydes without α-hydrogen atom undergo self-oxidation and reduction reaction when prepared with concentrated alkali.


Kolbe electrolysis:

An aqueous solution of sodium or potassium salt of a carboxylic acid gives alkane containing an even number of carbon atoms on electrolysis.

Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky (HVZ )reaction:

Carboxylic acids having a α-hydrogen are halogenated at the α-position give α-halo carboxylic acids on treatment with chlorine or bromine in the presence of small amount of red phosphorus.

Gabriel phthalimide synthesis:

Phthalimide prepared with ethanolic potassium hydroxide produces potassium salt of phthalimide when heated with alkyl halide followed by alkaline hydrolysis forms the corresponding primary amine.

Hoffmann bromamide degradation reaction:

An amide with bromine in an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide produces primary amines. Migration of an alkyl or aryl group takes place from carbonyl carbon of the amide to the nitrogen atom. The amine so produced include one carbon less than that present in the amide.