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Q: Oxidation of hydroxyl groups of glucose

In all oxidation reactions of glucose, it seems that the aldehyde group alone gets oxidised and none of the hydroxyl groups. In one reaction with nitric acid, the aldehyde group and the terminal hydroxyl group get oxidised but none of the remaining hydroxyl groups. I was wondering why this happen...

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M.A.R.

09:15

@orthocresol HA HA

Realizes has a bigger pile of reading

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Yusuf Hasan

13:42

@orthocresol Ok, thank you for the insight :)

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hBy2Py

16:30

@ortho, the Mad Editor is at it again on the EDTA post. Do you think maybe we should let the edit through, then revert it a day later?

Hot nitric acid (HNQ)

Q: Why Does Activation Energy not change with Temperature change

As The Graph Shows; $E_a$ (Activation Energy) = Energy Of transition State(Threshold Energy) $-$ Energy of Reactants. So let This be the graph at Temperature $T_1$, Now say We Increase The Temperature to say $T_2$ and so the energy of reactants must increase (as kinetic energy of molecules increa...

energy temperature

hBy2Py

@orthocresol Oh, yeah, goodness. I've done quite a lot of reading on quantum chem, and other than some of the basic linear algebra I was totally in new waters when I started looking into quantum computing.

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orthocresol

19:13

@hBy2Py The IP address seems to have been blocked by the system now, so I'll leave it for now. If it's still happening tomorrow, then maybe we can escalate the issue.

I honestly wonder if this person has bad intentions at this point. I'm starting to believe they're just a little (or a lot) crazy.

Re. quantum computing, I feel like I should understand it better, since the underlying theory is actually very similar to my own field of NMR (I think NMR was pretty popular as an experimental QC method in the early days, e.g. nature.com/articles/414883a, although nowadays it's fallen to the side). But I don't. It's tough. I think I don't understand NMR theory very well either. :)

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hBy2Py

23:24

@orthocresol Ah, easy enough!

@orthocresol <nod>, they honestly seemed to be frustrated that their edit kept being rejected...so, either they're acting the part, or they just really, really don't understand what's going on

Pretty much everything I know about quantum chem is ultimately methods, not QM theory. I could see the core NMR theory being similar to quantum computing, as you say...but only in the fuzziest, most vague of senses. :-D

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