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Sounds like you're looking for "medicinal chemistry", which is basically a blend of organic chemistry and biochem/medicine. To make some sweeping generalisations: -Med chem is about tweaking structures to maximise biological activity -Involves elucidation of mode of action of a drug...

I'm no expert on this exact topic but I'll try to give you something useful: Total synthesis of naturally occurring alkaloids is a very big area though, and includes synthesis of some psychedelic alkaloids. However, the motivation for making them is primarily to showcase methodology, confirm...

Anionic ligands are ligands that would dissociate from the metal as an anion, and are almost always anions from the start as well, neutral ligands dissociate as a neutral species. You can use the number of anionic ligands and overall charge of a complex to determine the oxidation state of the...

If the components are completely unknown, I'd probably opt for physical tests. Read about colligative properties. This should indicate which bottle is the mixture fairly easily, but will not give any structural information. The problem is that if you have absolutely no idea of what could be in...

In order to get tBuX [X=Cl, Br] from the corresponding alcohol, you need to use conc. HX. If the proportion of water is too high (i.e. the concentration of X- is low] you will mostly have the alcohol in the equilibrium mixture. This is why when you treat tBuX [X=Cl, Br] with water you get...