Questions tagged [reactivity]
Applied to a chemical species, the term expresses a kinetic property in reference to another species. The tag should be applied to questions seeking answers with respect to the reactivity (or unreactivity) of a certain chemical compound, species, molecular entity and/or functional groups. It must not be applied to questions about the stability of certain chemical species.
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Why zinc metal in solid state has an initial tendency to lose electrons when a zinc metal strip is dipped in a zinc sulphate aqueous solution?
Let us say I dip a metallic strip of zinc in a container filled with zinc sulphate aqueous solution. On observing the changes occurring in the solution, we would find that the zinc metal present in ...
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(Di)chlorination of phosphonic acid ester
What is the best way to do this reaction to form the dichloride as an reactive intermediate when the substituent R is acid sensitive?
In the literature the reaction is either performed with PCl5, a ...
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Are there any chiral molecules that react with their opposites?
Total layman's question just out of pure curiosity.
Are there any examples of a chiral molecule where a reaction takes place when two mirrored molecules interact? Or are these interactions always ...
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Calculation of Reaction Extent as a Function of Pressure and Temperature: Issue with Activity-Based Approach
I'm working on modeling reactions involving combinations of hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and strontium (Sr) elements. I've obtained the temperature-dependent Gibbs free energy of formation, enthalpy, ...
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Reaction between sodium hydroxide and glass? [duplicate]
In terms of storage, I thought that glass was the safest bet for chemicals: No leeching, no real degradation (neglecting it's an amorphous solid), affordable, etc...
However, I recently heard that ...
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Is HCl in salt form reactive with metallized aluminium plastic film? [closed]
I’m in the process of packaging an amino acid that contains HCl in salt form. The mixture is 60% base and 40% HCl salt.
Will this react to metallized aluminium plastic?
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Why can't the diene in a diels-alder also be a dienophile [closed]
why can't the diene react with itself like this
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Why mono and dioxides of germanium,tin and lead are amphoteric
I get that group 14 elements show +4 and +2 oxidation states so they can form both ionic and covalent compounds and so they are amphoteric but monoxide means that these elements have to show +2 ...
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Can the relative reactivity of metals be explained by ionization energy and/or electronegativity?
I'm a 9th grade physical science teacher, and we're currently learning periodic trends. This is the first chemistry my students have learned. One of our labs for this unit has to do with the relative ...
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How does the Eschweiler Clarke reaction occur with sodium cyanoborohydride as a reducing agent?
I am specifically confused with 2 concepts.
How sodium cyanoborohydride acts as a reducing agent. I read that it acts as a source of hydride but I am not sure how this works. If anything, I assumed ...
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Comparing reactivity of benzaldehyde and 2-butanone for nucleophilic addition
I was taught that, in general, aldehydes are more reactive than ketones because of two reasons: 1) less steric hindrance, and 2) alkyl groups on both sides of carbonyl group in ketones have a stronger ...
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Reactivity of Alkyl Halides with E2 with same number of substituents in the end
I have a question regarding the reactivity of alkyl halide for E2. I know that the general rule is tertiary alkyl halide reacts the fastest with E2, and primary alkyl halide reacts the slowest.
I was ...
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Order of radical dimerization ability
In a question I came across recently, it was asked to arrange the following radicals in the ascending order of dimerization ability.
I have read about the triphenylmethyl radical undergoing Gomberg ...
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Effect of phosphoric acid on chrome plating
Wondering whether phosphoric acid a suitable agent to clean chrome plated bathroom figments - a metal base shower head
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Improve the leaving capability of a leaving group (F-) with electron density donating groups (EDP) in close proximity (neighboring group effect)?
I have a situation in which I want to hydrolyze a phosphonic acid halide under basic conditions. In my specific case, the halide is a fluorine substituent. Other halides like chlorine and bromine are ...
