We are aware that this question does not fit the mentality of stackexchange but you still have the option of helping us. Thank you — Georgios Pligoropoulos4 hours ago
I'm not sure, but I'm inclined to flag it as spam... (On mobile can't see the flags)
@M.A.R. flag it, if I do it on the phone I'll mess it up
@M.A.R. well that was a while ago, I suggest you start from the beginning again :p
@M.A.R. the problem with the built up is, if you don't get it done, votes will start to age away - and roomba won't do its job any longer... But yeah, I can totally relate to that post
The quality of questions is really quite poor. Even though this is ostensibly "a question and answer site for biology researchers, academics, and students.", we attract and tolerate a lot of questions/nonsense from laypeople about anything remotely related to life. This site doesn't seem to have a very clear vision and thus moderation is rather inconsistent (myself included). Meta participation is also very poor which makes identifying and addressing problems difficult. C'est la vie. — canadianerAug 8 '17 at 18:48
Agreed. However, we are still better off, I think. And even though it takes its fair share of time, we still get some things done. I guess there simply are not enough professional chemists around, who also have the time to spend it here...
@GaurangTandon Your edit here: chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/90821/… I accepted, but the reason the answer didn't include those things is because they aren't really necessary to understand the intent. Unnecessary MathJax really makes pages slow.
@AvatarShiny Your edit here: chemistry.stackexchange.com/posts/90866/revisions would have been even better if it cleaned up some of the horrific formatting. I'm also ignoring the fact that it's a terrible question.
well, honestly, I don't know. Personally I just want to have a math.SE/MO kind of split. I'd have a lot of interest in the advanced chem stuff and zero interest in the basic chem stuff.
@pentavalentcarbon I used to edit all the homework questions no matter how terrible then Martin pointed out that I don't need to edit very poor questions. I wasn't going to touch that one but the 💖 emoji was 100% of pure cringe
@AvatarShiny It's fine, I understand. I think our new editors are improving quite a bit, and now you see that "substantial" edits can be difficult. If you're really good at it, you can turn lead into gold (metaphorically). But I haven't done it yet. Keep it up, though.
Also we could all stand to have a little 💖 sometimes...
Why is the standard reduction potential in units of volts (Joules/coulomb)? What does this tendency of a material to reduce has to do with the charge in coulombs?
Also, why this number doesn't depend on which elements the reducing material is interacting with? (which material gets oxidized)
Here's a couple of examples of what I mean. Firstly, in the reaction with thionyl chloride to make a carboxylic acid:
Secondly, in this specific example of a hydroboration reaction:
I don't really understand why you cant attack from the hydroxide group and then proton transfer. Any suggesti...
This question was from some time back and I just realised I have the same question as well. Would any organic chemistry expert like to write an answer?
Hint: Changing from acidic to basic media changes the species involved in balancing charges, thus the electron count changes a bit for each half equation
@Secret actually the second reaction is a simple acid-base reaction. Even I thought it's because of change in oxidizing strength of KMnO4 in different media
In aldol reactions, it is apparently a general rule of thumb that (Z)-enolates give higher stereoselectivity (for the syn aldol product) than (E)-enolates do for the anti product. Quoting Carey & Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part B (5th ed.), p 69:
From these and many related example...
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How did this show influenced Chemistry studies ?
Why is Meth considered to be the "highest" chemical drug ?
Does Meth cooking is done correctly in the show ?
This is a question on my past paper but I don't know how to answer it. I have looked on the internet but couldn't find anything. I need your help answering the question.
For example rutile mineral which belongs to tetragonal system has a tetragonal crystal system but it's final shape is somewhat different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutile Pyrite for example has a cubic unit cell then why its shape is not cubic and something else. What am I missing here?
I have tried it once and I will try it again: Shouldn't we be a bit more welcoming to new askers/ posters?
Now what brings me back to this topic? Today I came back to the network and was greeted with a flag on a post. It was a homework question, which showed no effort. This is usually fine, if t...
Why is the standard reduction potential in units of volts (Joules/coulomb)? What does this tendency of a material to reduce has to do with the charge in coulombs?
Also, why this number doesn't depend on which elements the reducing material is interacting with? (which material gets oxidized)
Here's a couple of examples of what I mean. Firstly, in the reaction with thionyl chloride to make a carboxylic acid:
Secondly, in this specific example of a hydroboration reaction:
I don't really understand why you cant attack from the hydroxide group and then proton transfer. Any suggesti...
In aldol reactions, it is apparently a general rule of thumb that (Z)-enolates give higher stereoselectivity (for the syn aldol product) than (E)-enolates do for the anti product. Quoting Carey & Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part B (5th ed.), p 69:
From these and many related example...
How did this show influenced Chemistry studies ?
Why is Meth considered to be the "highest" chemical drug ?
Does Meth cooking is done correctly in the show ?
This is a question on my past paper but I don't know how to answer it. I have looked on the internet but couldn't find anything. I need your help answering the question.
For example rutile mineral which belongs to tetragonal system has a tetragonal crystal system but it's final shape is somewhat different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutile Pyrite for example has a cubic unit cell then why its shape is not cubic and something else. What am I missing here?
