Describe the manufacture of ethanol by: (a) fermentation of aqueous glucose at 25–35°C in the presence of yeast and in the absence of oxygen (b) catalytic addition of steam to ethene at 300°C and 6000kPa/60 atm in the presence of an acid catalyst

Write and interpret general formulae of compounds in the same homologous series, limited to: (a) alkanes, (C_nH_{2n+2}) (b) alkenes, (C_nH_{2n}) (c) alcohols, (C_nH_{2n+1}OH) (d) carboxylic acids, (C_nH_{2n+1}COOH)