> The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every …
We know that the Darzens method of substitution works on $S_n i$ and is considered the best method in terms of yield of product. Also the side products are $\ce{SO_2}$ and $\ce{HCl}$ so the equilibrium shifts in the forward direction. But we know the lower haloalkanes are gases so if the molecula...
@Jan While you're boringly stably boringly boring, I'm not boringly boring, but just boring with regard to the not-boring fact that I boringly am awesome at not being boringly boring.
We have a number of questions that are asked here solely because they're problems people face in chemistry classes. Examples are:
Significant figures used to imply stated error?
When expressing a quantity, do the non-significant figures determines whether you round up the last significant figur...