Josh G.

04/21/19

Condition For NaHCO3 to react to form CO2 with organic acids?

My professor told us the following: NaHCO3 will react to evolveCO2 whenever the acidic nature of the reactant exceeds the acidic nature of benzoic acid. I want to know why this is. And is the... more

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Biochemistry Organic Chemistry Carbohydrates

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... more

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Organic Chemistry

03/19/19

How many types of chemicals are there?

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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... more

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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... more

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Organic Chemistry

03/18/19