@M.A.Ramezani Hi MAR, hope things are good with you. You said, "Ron = Organochem 100% pure." Makes me smile, but that's like saying ron only likes redheads. I think all women are beautiful; I think all chemistry is beautiful.
@M.A.Ramezani P.S. Noticed you haven't changed your avatar from cyclohexane to adamantane. Well, at least consider putting a t-butyl group on there so that you are not constantly flipping from chair to chair :)
@LordStryker Polarity is an ill-defined concept. I would consider carbon dioxide polar since there is quite a +/- separation in the bonds. Being polarisable is just an add-on.
@LordStryker I voted to close, as you can see for a different reason than homework - which I believe it is not... I just thought it is way too broad to give a sufficient answer. That is also why I have not voted on any of the answers so far...
@M.A.Ramezani I just think that I have a considerable positve charge on the carbon and a considerable negative charge on oxygen...
I have a question for you: How do you keep track of your projects, the status thereof and what to do next? Do you keep an electronic lab journal or do you do it with pen and paper?
When I was an undergraduate, I kept a traditional paper journal.
However, as your projects become more diverse and sophisticated, it can be very difficult and perhaps even impractical to continue to do so to so.
What I currently do now is keep a weekly electronic report of the status of all of my projects. These include tables of data, writeups, current questions I have, etc.
All right... Seems like quite the setup. Thanks for the answer!
I've been reading some papers (the one linked and some that cited it) on organization of computational projects, as I didn't really consider doing that until now but realized it might actually be kind of important (how come I ever thought in silico labs should be different?)
Organization can really depend on the project or set of projects you are working on. It is good to adhere to a set of standards (i.e. guidelines) and go from there.
The more you standardize your approach to organization, the easier it is later on down the road to build robust scripts that can do a lot of things for you.
I just need to figure out the standards I want to adhere to. Which also includes documentation of projects and the like. As I've recently become quite fond of fountain pen writing I am slightly partial towards pen-and-paper solutions, but as you point out it might be impractical
Does that make sense? I mean, shouldn't all things concerning my science be consolidated in one document, be it electronic or pen/paper? I'm not sure if you mean explorative idea-finding or effectively documenting the ideas using pen and paper...
I have a summary electronically on everything I touch and for my seminars I print it and I make any annotations on the paper until I make the next summary
If polar simply meant 'charge separation' and nothing more, then the word 'polar' or the concept thereof would have virtually zero use in Chemistry because we hardly ever deal with just neutrons.
Cool link. I find myself sitting here going "oh it melts because 'blah blah blah'" but I never find myself coming up with an answer that I'd be willing to confidently stand behind :D
How was JW? I've been wanting to see it but the girlfriend has been out of town so I've had to wait a bit. I'm rooting for the Cavaliers only because I'm originally from Akron. Not a LeBron fan to say the least but poor Cleveland has been in a championship drought since 1964.
So ron, tell me if you don't mind, what do you do for a living?
The synthesis side of things means catalysis but right now I'm simply looking at properties with TD-DFT, looking at some reaction mechanisms, and predicting NMR shifts.
I am interested in the chemical lsd or "acid". I wanted to know if lsd is acid in its pure form would that mean it is water?
Is the following molecule aromatic??
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table