See post onHow To Calculate Formal Charge 4. Example #1: Lone Pair → Bond The first example shows the simplified example of a lone pair on a naked hydroxide ion going to hydronium ion (H+).(Note 1). The arrow shows the formation of a bond between O and H, with electrons from the...
So the acid-base reaction in the quiz above favors water (pKa14) by about 10 orders of magnitude (1010) over acetic acid (pKa4). That means there are roughly 10 billion molecules of water for every molecule of acetic acid. This quiz asks you to calculate the ratio of each acid present...
“The approach involves the development of a series of polyamine ligands where three primary, secondary or tertiary alkyne-amines were selected and ‘clicked’ using the copper-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction to a 1,3,5-azide mesitylene core to produce a family of compou...
Last timewe talked about how electrons are the “currency” of chemistry and every reaction is a transaction of electrons between atoms. That means that if we really want to understand a reaction, we have to understand where the electrons are (and aren’t). There’s two factors to employ ...