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Sorry my explanation was a little vague. The pictures on that site are great though! It's exactly what I tried to describe. Gokul, do you think that inductive effects are fundamentally different from hyperconjugation, or is it just another way to describe the same thing? I guess that you...

I have to be skeptical of a guy who appears to be hawking his own version of a diet, and also a guy who seems to list references after his broad statements, but then doesn't appear to list the actual references. By the way, the part on that page about methanol is crap. Yes, a small amount of...

The effect is called hyperconjugation and is generally caused by some small overlap of the empty orbital of the carbocation with the neighboring occupied bonding orbitals. You can draw a structure that would sort of represent this by breaking a C-H bond such that you make an alkene using the...

S is in the 3rd period... Also, S8 is a ring of sulfur atoms, so there is no violation.

You mean singlet oxygen? That's different. In that case you haven't added an electron, in superoxide you have one more electron than you do in the regular oxygen molecule. Anyway, I think that I was wrong. You can draw a Lewis structure for superoxide radical where you have 3 lone pairs on...

Also the superoxide radical, O2 with an extra electron. It's found in biological systems.

It is theoretically possible to have a pi-bond to hydrogen, the necessary p-orbitals are there, but they are relatively high in energy. So, I would agree with jer83 that it is energetically unfavorable, although not impossible. And there are examples of pi bonds without sigma bonds. I saw...

Well, if you really want to be specific you'd better include benzyllic, doubly allylic, doubly benzylic, triply allylic, triply benzyllic, cations stabilized by adjacent heteroatoms, non-classical carbocations, cations destabilized by inductive withdrawing groups, and on and on...

NMR is a great way to do reaction kinetics if the rate of your reaction is compatable with the NMR time scale. Another good one is ReactIR, but that probably out of your price range (I think they are around $30,000), but I'm not positive of that. ReactIR is really only good if you have a nice...

IR spectra are usually observed with neat material if they are liquids or oils, which all of those are. You should certainly check to see that the specta are neat, however. You should check out the SDBS, they have tons of IR and NMR spectra for common compounds...

I think the part that you are neglecting is that in your example adding more heat would speed up the decomposition of C into A + B. This decomposition could be unimolecular and therefore could be initiated by adding energy to the system and increasing bond rotations, etc. that might lead to...

Adding heat to an exothermic reaction would cause a shift towards the reactants. Here is a restatement of what GCT wrote, which is right on: For a reaction to reach equillibrium you have to have enough energy around to get past the activation barriers. Adding heat gives more energy to the...

Think of light as composed of two perpendicular, two-dimensional waves, one is a sine wave, the other is a cosine wave. Both travel along a third axis. The vector sum of these two gives you the circular polarization that you expect from light. So, if you observe the light at your detector at...

There is some discussion of this in another thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=52941

I don't think that they are much to look at, they pretty much look like graphite. You can buy them from Aldrich though. Bring your wallet, they cost around $250/gram. You can get 25 mg for about $20, however.