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How Do Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Models in "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" Relate to Organic and Physical Chemistry?
I'm reading Alan Turing's "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" and its reaction-diffusion models:
https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf
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Reaction Order from Percent Yield?
Referencing this paper, I am trying to approximate the order of reaction for cyclohexane (4a). Trials 1-3 provide the relevant information of mmol changes and corresponding percent yield but I'm ...
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Fluorine detection in organic compounds
Many of you will know why I am asking this question. There is a lot of attention recently to the dangers of the so called Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). In essence organic ...
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Comparing rates of substitution reactions
The following question was asked in an exam I gave recently
Compare the overall rates of the following substitution reactions
$$\ce{CH3Cl ->[OH-][Weak P.A.S]
CH3OH}$$
$$\ce{CH3CH2Cl ->[OH-][ ...
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Aspirin Hydrolysis at pH 2
Conducting an experiment, I found that very little salicylic acid was evolved performing hydrolysis at $\mathrm{pH \ 2}$ and at $\pu{45 ^\circ C}$. In fact, far more salicylic acid was evolved at $\...
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How can isotope labelling be used to determine the mechanism of ether cleavage with hydrogen iodide?
When methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is treated with one equivalent of hydrogen iodide, the ether C–O bond is cleaved.
I read that if the oxygen in MTBE is isotopically labelled, it is possible to ...
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Difference between intermediates and transition states
Can someone please explain what exactly the difference between an intermediate and a transition state is?
I understand that they are formed as part of the process in converting the reactants to ...
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