Questions tagged [synthesis]
Synthesis is a purposeful execution of chemical reactions to obtain the desired product. Applies to long and complex natural product syntheses as much as to short one or two-step syntheses. This also covers synthetic problem sets and retrosynthetic analyses.
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Do molecules with bridges through rings exist?
Do molecules with bridges through rings (in a manner illustrated by this) exist?
I sometimes get results like this when doing Energy Minimization on molview.org. For example:
Is this actually a ...
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Why are there no cheap diamond equivalents?
We recently learned in school that diamonds sparkle as the are very optically dense, meaning that it takes longer for light to pass through them, thus meaning that the light totally internally ...
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Interlocked cyclic compounds
Being new to chemistry, there may ought to be some properties I couldn't understand fully. One of them being cyclic compounds.
One particular question about this is, whether these cyclic compounds, ...
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Energy-efficiency aside, what are the chemical constraints on CO₂ capture and methanation?
Synthesising $\ce {CH4}$ from air and water (in a non-biological process) has been proposed as one form of energy storage. What are the chemical constraints at play here? That is to say, what sort of ...
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Clemmensen reduction vs. Wolff-Kishner reduction
In which cases is the Clemmensen reduction is preferred over the Wolff-Kishner reduction?
One thing is that the Clemmensen reduction is done under acidic conditions whereas the Wolff-Kishner ...
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What is the mechanism of the reaction between hexane-2,5-dione and nitrous acid?
I don't understand the mechanism of the first reaction; I tried different ways but I can usually find how to make the ring without the double bonds, but it's obviously not the right thing; I think ...
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ICHO Synthesis Problem 2018
I've several doubts about this ICHO synthesis problem, which was a part of the preparatory problem package of 2018 (so yes, it's not a part of an ongoing contest)
Before sharing the answer given, I'...
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Designing a theoretical synthesis of methamphetamine from phenylpropyne
I am asked to synthesize "methamphetamine." Note that there is no configuration designated for this molecule, and methamphetamine refers to a very specific configuration. In any case, here are the ...
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Propose a chemical formula for the white solid that forms during the initial stages of the reaction of Sn with benzyl chloride
In my inorganic class, we carried out the synthesis of chlorotribenzyltin, $\ce{SnCl(CH2C6H5)3}$.
The synthesis begins with a reflux I'll describe below:
In a hood, place 2.0 g (17 mmol) of 325 mesh ...
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Which platonic solids have been built as carbon skeletons?
There are 5 platonic solids: the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the cube, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron.
How many of these have been realised as carbon skeletons by chemical synthesis?
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Understanding the synthesis of twistane [closed]
What are the products P and Q?
This was a question in my test series, but I don't have any experience with bridge head compound regarding the cis and trans transformation. I need help understanding ...
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Reactions of alcohol with sulfuric acid
I knew two chemical reactions of alcohol with sulfuric acid
$\ce{CH3CH2OH + H2SO4 -> CH2CH2}$
Here product is having a double bond (ethene) and this reaction happens at 443 K temperature.
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Are there any significant uses of the compound formed by magnesium and anthracene?
In an unusual reaction, magnesium reacts with anthracene in THF to form a grignard-like compound called, prosaically, magnesium anthracene:
I remember using it briefly in the 1980s. At the time there ...
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Is it possible that diamond can be grown from aqueous solutions?
Assume a cubic diamond crystal with hydrogen-terminated surface bonds. The terminating hydrogen atoms will form pairs that are geometrically close together in alternating diagonal pairs (think of the ...
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Why are solid phase organics often conjugated to HCl?
Many uncharged organic compounds are sold in solid phase with HCl conjugate - e.g. the antihistamine diphenhydramine.HCl or the derivitizing agent pentafluorobenzyl hydroxylamine.HCl, among many ...
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