UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

General Certificate of Education

Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level
*1166350738*

CHEMISTRY 9701/43
Paper 4 Structured Questions October/November 2012
2 hours
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
Additional Materials: Data Booklet

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Section A
Answer all questions.

Section B For Examiner’s Use

Answer all questions.
1
You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do not use
appropriate units. 2
A Data Booklet is provided.
3
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part 4
question.
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This document consists of 17 printed pages and 3 blank pages.

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Section A Examiner’s
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Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.

1 (a) Write down what you would see, and write equations for the reactions that occur, when
magnesium chloride, aluminium chloride and silicon tetrachloride are separately mixed
with water.

magnesium chloride

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aluminium chloride

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silicon tetrachloride

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(b) Sodium chloride is traditionally added to a particular meat product. In response to the
evidence that sodium chloride can lead to high blood pressure, the manufacturers have
replaced the sodium chloride with a mixture of sodium and potassium chlorides. 100 g of
the meat product usually contains about 2 g of the chloride mixture.
A particular meat product contains 1.10 g of sodium chloride and 0.90 g potassium
chloride in 100 g.

(i) Calculate the number of moles of chloride ions in 100 g of this meat product.

The amount of chloride in the meat product can be found by titration with silver nitrate
solution.

(ii) Write the ionic equation, including state symbols, for the reaction between aqueous
sodium chloride and aqueous silver nitrate.

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The chlorides from 100 g meat product are extracted into water and the solution made up Examiner’s
to 1000 cm3 in a volumetric flask. A 10.0 cm3 portion of this solution is then titrated with Use
0.0200 mol dm–3 silver nitrate solution to precipitate the chloride.

(iii) Calculate the volume of 0.0200 mol dm–3 silver nitrate solution that would be required
if this titration were carried out on 100 g of the particular meat product described
above.

[5]

(c) The iodination of benzene requires the presence of nitric acid.

(i) Using bond enthalpies from the Data Booklet, calculate the enthalpy change for the
following reaction.

I
+ I2 → + HI

(ii) Nitric acid reacts with hydrogen iodide according to the following unbalanced
equation.

........HI + ........ HNO3 → ........ I2 + ........ N2O3 + ........ H2O

Balance this equation, and describe how the oxidation numbers of nitrogen and
iodine have changed during the reaction.

nitrogen ......................................................................................................................

iodine .........................................................................................................................
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2 Nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere are homogeneous catalysts in the formation of acid rain. Examiner’s
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(a) What is meant by the following terms?

catalyst

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homogeneous

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(b) (i) State a major source of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere, explaining how they are
formed.

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(ii) Use equations to describe the chemical role played by nitrogen oxides in the
formation of acid rain.

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(c) Use the following axes to draw a fully labelled reaction pathway diagram showing the Examiner’s
effect of a catalyst on an exothermic reaction. Label the ∆H and Ea values. Use

energy reactants

extent of reaction
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3 (a) Complete the following electronic configuration of the Cu2+ ion. Examiner’s
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1s2 2s2 2p6 ........................................ [1]

(b) In a free, gas-phase transition metal ion, the d-orbitals all have the same energy, but
when the ion is in a complex the orbitals are split into two energy levels.

(i) Explain why this happens.

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(ii) How does this splitting help to explain why transition metal complexes are often
coloured?

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(iii) Why does the colour of a transition metal complex depend on the nature of the
ligands surrounding the transition metal ion?

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[5]

(c) Draw a fully-labelled diagram of the apparatus you could use to measure the E o of a cell
composed of the Fe3+/Fe2+ electrode and the Cu2+/Cu electrode.

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(d) The E o for Cu2+/Cu is +0.34 V. When NH3(aq) is added to the electrode solution, the Examiner’s
Eelectrode changes. Use

(i) Describe the type of reaction taking place between Cu2+(aq) and NH3(aq).

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(ii) Write an equation for the reaction.

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(iii) Describe the change in the colour of the solution.

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(iv) Predict and explain how the Eelectrode might change on the addition of NH3(aq).

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(e) Fehling’s reagent is an alkaline solution of Cu2+ ions complexed with tartrate ions. It is
used in organic chemistry to test for a particular functional group.

(i) Name the functional group involved.

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(ii) Describe the appearance of a positive result in this test.

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(iii) Write an equation for the reaction between Cu2+ and OH– ions and a two-carbon
compound containing the functional group you named in (i).

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[3]

(f) A solution containing a mixture of tartaric acid and its sodium salt is used as a buffer in
some pre-prepared food dishes.
Calculate the pH of a solution containing 0.50 mol dm–3 of tartaric acid and 0.80 mol dm–3
sodium tartrate.
[Ka(tartaric acid) = 9.3 × 10–4 mol dm–3]

pH = ...............................
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4 The compound responsible for the yellow colour of the spice turmeric is curcumin. Its Examiner’s
molecular structure can be deduced from the following series of reactions. The CH3O – group Use
that is present in curcumin may be regarded as unreactive.

curcumin, C21H20O6

reaction 1 hot concentrated acidified KMnO4

CH3O CO2H
+
HO
(two moles) A, C5H4O6 (one mole)
1. I2 + OH–(aq)
reaction 5 reaction 2
2. H+(aq)

D, C9H10O3 B, C5H8O6

reaction 4

CHO
HCN + NaCN
H 2C
reaction 3
CHO
C, C5H6N2O2

Curcumin and compounds A and D all react with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine reagent.

Compounds A and B effervesce with Na2CO3(aq), but curcumin, and compounds C and D,
do not.

Curcumin reacts with Br2(aq) and with cold dilute acidified KMnO4

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(a) (i) Name the functional group common to curcumin and compounds A and D. Examiner’s
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(ii) Name the functional group common to compounds A and B.

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(b) (i) Suggest the structures of compounds B, C and D, and draw their structural formulae
in the relevant boxes opposite.

(ii) Suggest suitable reagents and conditions for reaction 4.

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(c) (i) Name the type of reaction for reaction 2.

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(ii) Suggest a reagent for reaction 2.

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(iii) Suggest the structure of compound A, and draw its structural formula in the relevant
box opposite.
[3]

(d) (i) Name the functional group in curcumin that reacts with cold dilute acidified KMnO4.

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(ii) Name two functional groups in curcumin that react with Br2(aq).

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[2]

(e) Suggest a structure for curcumin and draw its structural formula in the relevant box
opposite. [2]

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5 (a) (i) Explain why ethylamine is basic. Examiner’s
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(ii) Write an equation showing ethylamine acting as

a base, .......................................................................................................................

a nucleophile. ............................................................................................................

(iii) Why is phenylamine less basic than ethylamine?

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Alkaloids are naturally-occurring compounds that act as bases.

(iv) Suggest the structure of the product, E, of the reaction between the alkaloid nicotine
and an excess of HCl (aq).

N excess HCl (aq)

N CH3

nicotine
E
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(b) Phenylamine, and substituted phenylamines, are used to make cloth dyes and food
colourants.
The first step in this process is the production of a diazonium salt.

+
NH2 N N

(i) State the reagents and conditions necessary for this reaction.

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The diazonium salt is then reacted with a phenol or an aryl amine in alkaline solution. Examiner’s
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OH

+ NaOH(aq) N N OH

+
N N
NR2
N N NR2
+ NaOH(aq)

(ii) Suggest the starting materials needed to synthesise the following dyes.
Draw their structures in the boxes provided.

CO2H

O2N N N OH

alizarin yellow R

NaO3S N N N(CH3)2

methyl orange

(iii) Suggest what effect the NaO3S – group in methyl orange has on its properties. This
group has no effect on the colour of the compound.

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Section B Examiner’s
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Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.

6 The proteins in the human body are complex polymers made up of around 20 different amino
acids. Alanine is a typical amino acid.

H H O

N C C

H CH3 OH

alanine

(a) Glycine, H2NCH2CO2H, is the simplest amino acid and differs from each of the other
2-amino acids in a significant way. What is this difference?

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(b) Protein molecules coil and fold, producing molecules with complex three-dimensional
shapes. This is referred to as the secondary and tertiary structures of a protein.

(i) State one form of secondary structure and give the type of bonding responsible.

structure .....................................................................................................................

bonding ......................................................................................................................

(ii) Give two examples of bonding causing the tertiary structure, and give the amino
acid responsible in each case.

bonding ................................................. amino acid .................................................

bonding ................................................. amino acid .................................................

[6]

(c) Suggest why globular proteins, such as enzymes, contain relatively small amounts of
glycine and alanine when compared to the amounts of some other amino acids. You may
wish to refer to their structures given above.

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(d) DNA consists of a double helix with each strand having a sugar-phosphate ‘backbone’ Examiner’s
with one of four bases – adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T) – attached Use
to the sugar.

(i) The two strands of the double helix are held together by hydrogen bonds between
pairs of bases. What are the pairs of bases?

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In protein synthesis, sections of the DNA are copied by mRNA and this, in turn, is read by
the ribosome in order to assemble the amino acids for the new protein chain. Each group
of three bases codes for one amino acid, with some amino acids having several codes.
The codes are summarised below.

UUU phe UCU ser UAU tyr UGU cys

UUC phe UCC ser UAC tyr UGC cys
UUA leu UCA ser UAA stop UGA stop
UUG leu UCG ser UAG stop UGG trp

CUU leu CCU pro CAU his CGU arg

CUC leu CCC pro CAC his CGC arg
CUA leu CCA pro CAA gln CGA arg
CUG leu CCG pro CAG gln CGG arg

AUU ile ACU thr AAU asn AGU ser

AUC ile ACC thr AAC asn AGC ser
AUA ile ACA thr AAA lys AGA arg
AUG met/ ACG thr AAG lys AGG arg
start

GUU val GCU ala GAU asp GGU gly

GUC val GCC ala GAC asp GGC gly
GUA val GCA ala GAA glu GGA gly
GUG val GCG ala GAG glu GGG gly

(ii) The coding for all protein chains starts with the AUG, and ends with one of three
‘stop’ codes shown in the table. What amino acid sequence would the following
series of bases produce?

-AUGGGUAGCCUCGCAUCGUAA-

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(iii) What would be the effect on the amino acid sequence, of a mutation that changed
the base at position 10 in the series of bases above from C to G?

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7 Although the chemical reactions of compounds remain important pointers to their functional Examiner’s
groups, instrumental techniques such as mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy are Use
increasingly used to determine molecular structures.

(a) Compound J was analysed using these two techniques with the following results.

The mass spectrum showed that

● the M peak was at m/e 86,
● the ratio of heights of the M and M+1 peaks was 23.5 : 1.3.

The NMR spectrum is shown below.

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
δ / ppm

(i) Use the data to determine the number of carbon and hydrogen atoms present in J,
showing your working.

(ii) Use the information given above and your answer to (i) to identify the other element
present in J.

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(iii) Determine the structure of J, explaining how you reach your conclusion.

structure of J

explanation ................................................................................................................

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(b) Chromatography is another important analytical technique used in chemistry. Examiner’s
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(i) Paper, thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography rely on different physical methods to
separate the components in a mixture. Complete the table indicating the appropriate
method on which the technique is based.

technique physical method

paper chromatography

thin-layer chromatography

gas-liquid chromatography

In paper chromatography, better separation may be achieved by running the chroma-

togram in one solvent, then turning the paper at right angles and running it in a second
solvent. The chromatogram below was produced in this way.

solvent 1

sample
applied here

solvent 2

(ii) How many spots were visible before solvent 2 was used?

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(iii) Ring the spot that did not move in solvent 2.

(iv) How many spots travelled further in solvent 2 than they did in solvent 1?

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8 The physical properties of polymers depend on the average relative molecular mass of the Examiner’s
polymer chains and on the functional groups present in the monomers. Use

The presence of side-chains in addition polymers can increase the spacing between polymer
chains in the bulk substance and hence reduce the overall density.

In condensation polymers it is the nature of the side-chain that is often more important since
this can lead to cross-linking of the polymer chains forming a three-dimensional structure.

(a) For each of the following polymers, give the structure of the monomer(s) and state the
type of reaction used to produce the polymer.

H H O O
polymer A
N (CH2)6 N C (CH2)4 C n

monomer(s)

type of reaction ....................................................................................

H H
H H
C C
polymer B
C C
H H
CH3 CH3 n

monomer(s)

type of reaction ....................................................................................

H O
polymer C
N (CH2)5 C n

monomer(s)

type of reaction ....................................................................................

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(b) Look at the structures of the three polymers and answer the following questions. Examiner’s
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(i) Suggest why the density of B is lower than that of A.

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(ii) Which polymer will have the weakest forces between chains, and what is the nature
of these forces?

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