2,220 Answered Questions for the topic organic chemistry
Organic Chemistry
03/28/19
How many known organic compounds are there?
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03/27/19
Hydrogen bonding in staggered vs eclipsed conformations?
In my first semester of organic chemistry, we learned that staggered conformations have lower energy/higher stability.
However, my thought is that if you have interacting OH groups, the hydrogen...
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Why is KI oxidized by H2SO4, whereas NaBr isn't oxidised?
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03/27/19
Do L-sugars (enantiomers of natural sugars) have a sweet taste?
I'm wondering about how L-sugars taste. They are obviously not digestible by humans, but what do they taste like? If they are sweet, too, why isn't sucrose with the unnatural chirality used as a...
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03/27/19
Why does fructose reduce Tollen's reagent and Fehling's solution?
Even though fructose is a ketohexose (ketone-containing hexose, a six-carbon monosaccharide), it reduces Tollen's reagent and Fehling's solution. Generally, a ketone does not reduces Tollen's...
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Organic Chemistry
03/26/19
I have one question. How changes nucleophilic reactions between paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde and benzaldehyde
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Organic Chemistry Chemistry
03/20/19
What are the examples of environmental chemistry?
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03/20/19
Blebbistatin effect on vesicles?
Blebbistatin is a drug that specifically inhibits the assembly of myosin in the cytoskeleton. What effect would you expect blebbistatin to have on intracellular vesicles? The formation of vesicles...
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03/19/19
If that amount, from problem 7 , fills a room 500,000 L, then how many parts per million carbon dioxide are in the room? 1 mol of gas occupies 22.4L
If that amount, from problem 7 (the amount is the propane balanced equation: C3H8 + 5O2 = 3CO2 + 4H2O).
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Organic Chemistry Analytical Chemistry
03/19/19
What can I do if I don't get a phase separation between my organic and water phases?
Solvent extraction in a separation funnel is a very common method in preparative organic chemistry. But sometimes you don't get a nice phase separation between the organic and the water phase....
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03/19/19
Thermodynamic stability of meta-xylene over ortho- and para-isomers?
When talking about the example of the alkylation of toluene by chloromethane in the presence of $\\ce{AlCl3}$, Hepworth, Waring and Waring (2002) mentioned that:
>At room temperature, a mixture...
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Organic Chemistry
03/19/19
What are the prefixes in organic chemistry?
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Organic Chemistry Stereochemistry
03/19/19
How are solvents chosen in organic reactions?
Just reading through organic chemistry book (Modern Projects in Organic Chemistry by Mohrig, et al.), and it seems like the choice of solvent is usually arbitrary.
One of the experiments designed...
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03/18/19
What determines whether a step in a reaction is reversible?
What makes a step in a reaction not reversible? I'm learning all these mechanisms and having to memorize which steps are reversible. Is there a way to figure out whether it's reversible or not?
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Organic Chemistry Redox
03/18/19
Why are optically active compounds abundant in nature?
Enantiomers have most physical properties exactly same, which makes them hard to seperate from one another. Due to large amounts of physical similarities and chemical similarities (when dealing...
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Organic Chemistry
03/18/19
What are the characteristics of organic compound?
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Organic Chemistry Radicals
03/16/19
Why is mercury a "fancy proton"?
I remember that one of my old organic chemistry profs referred to mercury as being a "fancy proton". I think it was in the context of oxymercuration reduction.
What might have been his rationale...
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