Considering EAS Strong EAS reactions (nitration) are said to be governed by Inductive effects thus the order of nitration is D>C>B>A 2.Chlorination is not a strong electrophile so it is said the be governed by hyper conjugation. A>B>C>D My question is : why? The factors c...

I've read that the oxygen atom in water is $\mathrm{sp^2}$ hybridized, such that one of the oxygen lone pairs should be in an $\mathrm{sp^2}$ orbital and the other should be in a pure p atomic orbital. First, am I correct about the lone pairs being non-equivalent? Second, if so, does this have ...

I was just reading through Reactions: The private life of atoms by Peter Atkins and I noticed that in Chapter 3, the chapter on the combustion reaction, the author writes: As we watch we see $\ce {CH_4}$ being whittled down to naked $\ce {C}$ as its $\ce{H}$ atoms are stripped away by radica...

The $(M+1)$ peak is often considered in the high-resolution mass spectra of organic molecules as it reveals the number of carbon atoms in the sample. In general, it is known that the ratio of the size of the $M$ to $(M+1)$ peaks is $98.9 : 1.1 \times n $ since the relative abundance in nature of ...