The negative charge caused by the unshared electron pair on carbon in the acetylide anion make it a strong nucleophile and ideal for bimolecular nucleophilic substitution or {eq}S_N2 {/eq}reaction.Answer and Explanation: When acetylene reacts with an alkyl halide, a ter...
Eugenol is an aromatic oil with the structure given in the figure below. Notice that it contains a carbon-carbon double bond, otherwise known as...
Bacteriophages have long been known to use modified bases in their DNA to prevent cleavage by the host’s restriction endonucleases. Among them, cyanophage S-2L is unique because its genome has all its adenines (A) systematically replaced by 2-aminoadenines (Z). Here, we identify a member ...