How do I think about stoichiometry and studying reactions in aqueous solutions, basically the 3'rd and 4'th chapter of those intro chem books such as Brown/LeMay? The later chapters make perfect sense, but those chapters are an anomaly to me :\ I mean the later chapters are dumbed down quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, but those chapters I cannot place or understand, especially why they put them in the beginning out of nowhere. Thoughts?
@Jan don't really know how it came about... I always thought that crystal field theory and MO theory were developed into something we do now call ligand field theory, but I honestly did pay much attention to how the theories were derived. And my knowledge of VB is also quite limited.
Generally, your substance can react in one of the following four ways that you have already identified:
$\mathrm{S_N1}$ solvolysis on the tertiary chlorine resulting in 4-chloro-2-methylbutan-2-ol;[1]
$\mathrm{S_N2}$ solvolysis on the primary chlorine resulting in 3-chloro-3-methylbutan-1-ol;
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It's easier with real latex documents, I have a "template" that contains all these things in the preamble.
In particular \newcommand{\odiff}[2]{\frac{\mathrm{d} #1}{\mathrm{d} #2}} and \newcommand{\pdiff}[3]{\left( \frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2} \right)_{#3}} save me a ton of work
@orthocresol Yeah, \newcommand is a strong tool in (Xe)(La)TeX, I'll definitely agree. Although I didn't make use of it to a quarter of its potential so far x3
Sleep when the others want to work (preferably exactly where they want to work) and play when the others want to sleep (preferably in the same room and very loud games involving jumping about).
This question dates back to a time where I used to watch something called The Curiosity Show... Kinda like Bill Nye the Science Guy's show. I just can't recall the answer to this so I'm hoping that someone could shed some light.
I have two glasses of equal size and volume, with equivalent volume...
In the case of attempting to heat and cool down an object of different states, if you in some case managed to achieve the same temperature of a solid, liquid and gas what state would scientifically heat or cool the object faster?
On my view point I suggested a gas to be more efficient simply du...
@Loong Nah, I'm going to go home now. (Also, I don't know what mercury sulphate would do, so I'm keeping quiet before I experience a wrong-mechanism moment like ron recently had xD)
Should this be $$\mathrm{some\ terminal\ alkyne}\ \ce{->[\ce{H2O}][\ce{H2SO4,\ HgSO4}]}\ \mathrm{some\ ketone}$$ Alkenes undergo oxymercuriation to form alcohols. — Ben Norris14 mins ago
@Loong @orthocresol @Jan @ToddMinehardt @Mithoron @Martin-マーチン @anyone else I will be the leader when I come to the room... Since I won't be here from the very beginning, do you want to delay the TRE a little bit later (about half an hour later)?