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A solution of sodium bromide is added to an acidified solution of potassium bromate. Write and balance the reduction half-reaction for mass and charge.
It is assumed that without any chemical adulteration that sufficient heat will cause these organic acids to convert to formaldehyde.
Without stratospheric ozone (O3), harmful solar radiation would cause gene alterations. Ozone forms when O2 breaks and each O atom reacts.
Fatty acids are long-chain carboxylic acids, usually of 12 or more carbon atoms, isolated from saponification of fats and oils.
What product(s) would you expect to form when tetrahydrofuran is treated with excess hydroiodic acid (HI)?
Differentiate between strong and weak acids and bases and calculate the ion concentrations for weak acids and bases given an equilibrium constant.
12.0 g of isopentyl alcohol mixed with 20 mL glacial acetic acid and 1.2 mL of H2SO4. This is refluxed for an hour.
Compound A is a chiral compound which, when reacted with chromium (VI) oxide and sulphuric acid, gives an achiral product B, C5H10O.
Draw an arrow pushing mechanism for the formation of the acylium ion when acetic anhydride reacts with phosphoric acid.
What types of limitations and obstacles must any plausible origin of life scenario overcome, and why did Crick believe life couldn't have formed on Earth?
The biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is the capacity of organic and biological matter in natural water to consume oxygen.
Write an equation for the reaction of propanal with each of the following reagents, and name the organic product.
The decomposition of KClo3 proceeds spontaneously when it is heated. Do you think that the reverse reaction, the formation of KCLO3
Draw electron-dot formulas for all the contributors to the resonance hybrid structures of the carbonate ion, CO32¯.
Write equations to show how 1-pentanol can be synthesized from bromopropane and ethylene oxide, using a Grignard reagent.
Write an equation for hydrogenation of glyceryltrioleate. Write an equation for saponification of glyceryltripalmitate.
Show the structure of all possible acid-catalyzed dehydration products of the following. If more than one alkene is possible.
Calculate the molar solubility of Mg(OII)_2 in a solution with a pH of 12.8 (K_op of Mg(OH)^2 is 1.2 * 10^-11
When amide X is treated with lithium aluminum hydride, the corresponding amine can be isolated in good yield.
The following reaction only gives the product indicated. By what mechanism does this reaction most likely occur? Draw mechanism.
Give a detailed mechanism for conversion of 2,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadiene, using H3PO4, into 1,1-dimethyl-2-isopropenylcyclopentane.
How should the structures of the obtained products from each of the reagents be drawn?
Predict the structure of the diphenylquinone product, C28H40O2 by the oxidative coupling of 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol with oxygen in the presence of base.
Based on your choice of mechanism, explain how both the substrate and the product can have R configuration?
Predict the two most likely products for the following reaction and show a stepwise mechanism for the formation of each product.