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    How can I improve molecule elution in thin layer chromatography?

    What's the Rf in 9:1 chloroform:methanol? Have you tried 100% EtOAc, or AcOH in EtOAc?
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    Do 3 electron bonds really exist?

    Perhaps you mean three-centered bonds? Like H3+, where three atoms are bonded together with two electrons?
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    Hydrolysis Reaction: Aspartame & Water Breakdown

    It's a pretty standard hydrolysis, you can find the mechanism in any O-chem text. There's really no use in explaining it step by step verbally on a message board. Notice the structure of aspartame. They hydrolysis occurs at the amide functionality which cleaves the molecule into a...
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    Mechanism of Most Chemical Reactions

    Oh, I've still got two or three years left to go.
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    Mechanism of Most Chemical Reactions

    Yes, I dare say I agree most mechanisms involve some sort of pushing of electrons. So where'd you get your degree?
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    I feel high after playing my guitar, any explanations?

    Yeah, see the guitar is a string instrument. The problem is you're blowing too hard.
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    Preparing Alcohol from Bromobenzene and 1-Butene | Solomons Organic Chem

    Whoops, you're right. My mistake.
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    Preparing Alcohol from Bromobenzene and 1-Butene | Solomons Organic Chem

    Yes, ozonolysis cleaves a carbon. Yes, the product has ten carbons. BnBr plus butene makes eleven carbons. I'm guessing you're confusing BnBr with PhBr.
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    Preparing Alcohol from Bromobenzene and 1-Butene | Solomons Organic Chem

    Are you sure that's the right number of carbons? If so, ozonolysis with reductive work-up of the butene, followed by Grignard addition of the bromobenzene to the aldehyde.
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    Preparing Alcohol from Bromobenzene and 1-Butene | Solomons Organic Chem

    Maybe you should redraw the target, you've got three bonds to oxygen. And I could be mistaken but I think you're missing a carbon.
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    I'm finding organic chemistry difficult

    Actually, in the reduction of carbonyl compounds with LiAlH4, the oxygen coordinates with the aluminum. You end up with the aluminate. That's pretty well known. And this is why I recommend against getting mechanism from anonymous second-hand sources. If you want to look up specific...
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    Thalidomide Racemization: Why Does it Occur?

    I wasn't aware it had shown any cytotoxic activity. I do know it is being used to treat leprosy. And it is being synthesized in its enantiopure form, so I'm assuming the rate of racemization under physiological conditions is much too slow to cause the deleterious side effects.
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    Soccer: Is It Bad for Girls? Learn Why Not!

    Soccer has all kinds of benefits for girls. For one, girls who practice sports have higher self esteem and are less likely to be abused later in life. Tell your sexist friend to kiss your butt.
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    Thalidomide Racemization: Why Does it Occur?

    I'm interested in where you found this out. I was under the impression that thalidomide did NOT racemize in vivo. Anywho, look at the structure of thalidomide. Are you familiar with what an enol or enolate is? Well, the chiral carbon is enolizable. I'm not sure of your O-chem background...
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    What Gas is Produced from H2O+HCL?

    It's also an exothermic reaction when you dilute HCl in water. My guess is it is some mixture of HCl (g) and water vapor.