…in class. I also used the CU Boulder Organic Archive which has old tests ranging from 1999-2014. This was useful when studying for tests. My professor also had a personal…
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…is really about trusting yourself that you can memorize. Some other resources I’ve used: -Great book, must-read. http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein/ -Forum for meeting other memory wizards. http://mnemotechnics.org -Memorize ANYTHING: http://www.memrise.com/home/ Thank you…
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Iron smelting! Photo credit: http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/02/iron-smelting-at-acba.html In the beginning, the term actually made sense. When the alchemists and medieval metallurgists started doing experiments to quantify exactly how much iron, say was…
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…Ber. 1885, 18 (2), 2269-2281 DOI: 10.1002/cber.18850180296 The original paper on ring strain by the legendary chemist Adolf von Baeyer. Even though this paper is titled on a completely different…
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…from www.masterorganicchemistry.com (the “Site”) or one of its subdomains (e.g. store.masterorganicchemistry.com, members.masterorganicchemistry.com) Table of Contents Personal Information We Collect How Do We Use Your Personal Information? Sharing Your Personal Information…
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…determined this by comparing heats of combustion from rings of various sizes, and saw that the ΔHcombustion per CH2 was essentially constant as ring sizes went above 12. Based on…
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…similar results if we compared heats of formation instead of heats of combustion, but combustion is so much more vivid : – ) 6. What Factors Might Lead To Ring…
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…the compound now known as “Dess-Martin periodinane”, a hypervalent I(V) compound that has found widespread use as a mild oxidant in organic synthesis. Prof. J. C. Martin spent most of…
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…the standard battery of tests, doctors told me that my platelet count was 34. Normal humans have platelet counts of 150-300. Below 20 they immediately start blood infusions. The diagnosis…
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Description: Ozone will cleave carbon-carbon double bonds to give carbonyl compounds such as aldehydes or ketones, after treatment with a reducing agent such as zinc or dimethyl sulfide (“reductive workup”)…
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