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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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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 ...
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What are some other examples of non-nucleophilic acids, other than boronic acids?
Boronic acids can react as a Lewis acid, after reaction they are not good nucleophiles as the conjugate base. What are some other examples of such non-nucleophilic acids (or acids that have a non-...
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Why can't Grignard reagents react like Organolithium does (with acids)?
I'd read yesterday that Grignard reagents can't give ketones on reaction with carboxylic acids. It is because of the fact that Grignard reagent is a "super-base", and it will deprotonate the ...
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Relation between acidity and reactivity?
Up till high school, I've been taught that reactivity and acidity of a substance in a relation that if a substance is acidic and if it's acidity is higher (comparatively to some other substance) than ...
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Why is the iodide anion a good nucleophile but a poor base?
The $\mathrm{pK_{aH}}$ of $\ce I^-$ is very low which indicated that it is not favourable for it to bond with a proton. However, why would it be likely to bond with any other atom (mostly carbon when ...
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