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Is there an international standard for rating the danger of chemical elements?
I'm writing a small little tool (something like an interactive periodic table) and I wanted a good "guesstimate" of the danger of certain elements, to visualize across said table.
I could go ...
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What makes a compound high or low energy and why does that relate to reactivity? [closed]
After reading about thermodynamic stability, it now makes sense to me how the enthalpy of a reaction relates to the thermodynamic stability of a compound.
However, when looking for a clear way to ...
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Reactivity vs Stability: Chlorine Trifluoride
Chlorine trifluoride shows up on many pop science content, which is how I learned about it just today, as an incredibly reactive compound capable of oxidizing seemingly incombustible substances (glass,...
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How is propene more reactive as well as more stable than ethene?
I know that hyperconjugation stabilises a double bond. But in propene an electron-donating group $(\ce{-CH3})$ is increasing the electron density at the double bond, so its nucleophilicity should be ...
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Regarding stability and reactivity of m-xylene
I came across the following two details about m-xylene:
m-Xylene is thermodynamically most stable compound among o-xylene, m-xylene, and p-xylene.
m-Xylene is most reactive towards nitration and ...
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Which is more reactive in E1, benzyl or allyl
I'm don't know the english terminology for chemistry so sorry for probably butchering some terms.
My question is, which of these is more reactive in an E1 reaction:
The bottom two are the ...
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How can you calculate the tendency of one compound to become another?
Excuse my inexperience with chemistry here. I've been poring over papers with terms like "Standard Gibbs free energy of formation", "Hess's Law", "standard enthalpy of ...
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Reactivity comparison between benzaldehyde and acetaldehyde [duplicate]
One of my teacher says that $\ce{Ph-CHO}$ is more reactive than $\ce{CH3-CHO}$ in performing nucleophillic addition reaction because $\ce{—Ph}$ is planar and thus offers less steric hindrance as ...
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What are the properties of COₓ where x ≥ 3?
$\ce{CO_x}$ are part of the oxocarbon molecule class. Commonly known are $\ce{CO}$ and $\ce{CO2}.$ However, there are molecules in which $x$ is equal to or larger than $3.$ Those molecules are barely ...
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Reaction of aqueous sodium carbonate with aluminum foil
Aqueous sodium hydroxide is known to react with aluminum foil in an exothermic, hydrogen-gas releasing reaction like $$\ce{2NaOH(aq) + 2Al(s) + 2H2O(\ell) → 2NaAlO2(aq) + 3H2(g)}$$
However, on ...
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Do amides oxidize to double-bonds?
Do amides from primary or secondary amines ever oxidize to a double-bond on the nitrogen? For example, like from an $\mathrm{R \bbox[yellow]{\color{red}{-}}(NH)-(C=O)-R'}$ to an $\mathrm{ R \bbox[...
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Reactivity order of electrophilic addition
Find the order of the ease of electrophilic addition of the following:
$\ce{H3C-O-CH=CH2}$
$\ce{ F-CH=CH2}$
$\ce{Cl-CH=CH2}$
$\ce{NO2-CH=CH2}$
According to me, it should be 1 > 4 > ...
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What drives a molecule/atom towards stability? [duplicate]
I'm very familiar with the concept that chemical reactions occur because the reactants a state of stability via the reaction. It's a very satisfying and fulfilling statement. But my question has ...
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Stability of carbanion
I am confused about how one can determine the stability of carbanions using pKa-values. I know that the stability of carbanions can be determined by the inductive effect, hybridization of the charged-...
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Why is benzenediazonium fluoroborate water insoluble and stable at room temperature?
Benzenediazonium fluoroborate is water insoluble and stable at room temperature.
Why is this salt, water insoluble? Also I am told that benzenediazonium salts are stable only at low temperature(<5°...
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