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I was just curious to see what everybody enjoyed the most (or enjoyed the least) in terms of chemistry classes. I finally get to take Inorganic next year, which I feel like I am going to enjoy a lot along with biochemistry.

So I'm not sure if this is the appropriate section, so mods, please move this as you see fit. I am a sophomore biochemistry major looking to go to graduate school for biochemistry or evolutionary biology (decision should be made by next semester after I take biochem formally). Unfortunately, I...

Extremely, thank you. I was mainly unsure of that exact point. "Is is still treated as a lone hydroxyl group, or is it treated as a part of a group that does not necessarily obey that tosylate rule?" That clears everything up.

My original thought was stability, but I am not sure. We were never shown an example problem where there was any more than one -OH group in class, nor were we shown what could happen if there are two oxygen-centric functional groups. I just do not know how to go about dealing with them since we...

A screenshot of the molecule in Marvin Sketch is attached

Homework Statement Predict the major product in the following reaction (Hint: Consider intra-molecular reaction) Homework Equations HO2C-(CH2)3-CH(OH)-CH3 ------------cat. p-TsOH, heat----------> ? The Attempt at a Solution Essentially what I cannot figure out is if the tosic acid is going...

Just put it on my Christmas list! Thanks.

Unless you use a catapult. I agree that HI by itself will not reduce it, you are correct. With an input of energy (heat) though?

As the title implies, I am looking for a decent introductory modern physics text for self-study purposes. I'm a Biochemistry major, so this is partially for my own enjoyment and partially for preparation for Physical Chemistry II. I know that there are a lot of threads on this, but I always like...

Could you explain why not?

Thank you; that was the trend that I was seeing, but some schools were irritatingly giving me an abbreviation (PHYSXXXX) and made me run around trying to look up a course description. It didn't help that I was one my phone. At any rate, thank you again. I am going to get a book for Christmas to...

I believe so, yes. I think that the glucose would be reduced and would give n-hexane. It has been a while since I've looked at anything like this (which is bad since I have a final coming up), but I believe that an O-C bond would break and hydroxyl groups would lyse off from there. I know that...

PV=nRT where: P= absolute pressure V= absolute volume T= absolute temperature n= number of moles of gas R= universal gas constant (8.3145 J/mol*K) From the equation, you can see that pressure (P) is directly proportional to the concentration or number of molecules (n) and the temperature of the...

That sounds interesting. We have two physical chemists on staff and a couple of physicists I believe, although they are adjuncts for whatever reason. I doubt that I would have the skills to apply to a graduate program in physics myself, but hopefully I can find something where I can apply such...

Hello everyone, I am new to these forums, so if this question is in the wrong place, I will relocate it. Long story short, my school has no real physics department anymore, but I have an insatiable appetite for it. I was wondering what the next course in a physics sequence would be after...