…features of Reagents: Profiles of over 80 reagents, along with their key reactions. Examples of each of the representative reactions of each reagent. There’s hundreds of example reactions in all,…
Read morePyridinium Chlorochromate (PCC), A Useful Oxidant For Alcohols In Organic Chemistry In a blatant plug for the Reagent Guide, each Friday I profile a different reagent that is commonly encountered…
Read more…An intermediate is a species at an energy minimum in a reaction coordinate, and is (in theory) isolable. Carbocations and free-radicals are examples of intermediates. Transition State = The Point…
Read more…my own afterwards. Working with another class mate. Coming up with games to help cement the information. For example my girlfriend and i made a synthesis game where we started…
Read more…not participate in hydrogen bonding (no O-H or N-H bonds). Their high polarity allows them to dissolve charged species such as various anions used as nucleophiles (e.g. CN(-), HO(-), etc.)….
Read more…quiz below, fill out the complete tables with the information provided: Click to Flip 7. Application – Alkene Reactions Here’s another example which comes up near the beginning of organic…
Read more…Guide”, available here as a downloadable PDF. The Reagents App is also available for iPhone, click on the icon below! Image credit (Advanced) References And Further Reading CYCLIC KETONES FROM…
Read more…You can read about the chemistry of Na and more than 80 other reagents in undergraduate organic chemistry in the “Organic Chemistry Reagent Guide”, available here as a downloadable PDF….
Read more…gas phase. The numbers agree with intuition from solution-phase experiments; stability increases from methyl -> ethyl -> isopropyl -> t-butyl. Quantitative preparation and enthalpy of rearrangement of the sec-butyl cation…
Read more…portion of a pKa table should be an excellent guide to the best leaving groups. The conjugate bases of strong acids, such as I(-), Br(-), Cl(-), HOSO3(-), TsO(-), H2O, and…
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