Recent content by Zynwyx

You are right, I came to Tollens' from studying organic carbonyls and the tests used to identify them like Fehling's, Brady's etc. But I was having trouble remembering them as I usually remember things by mechanism e.g. like the iodoform reaction. But the mechanism for this seems very...

Faraday's law says that an induced voltage across a conductor is directly proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux through the conductor, but I am having trouble getting my head round how it works in this situation. Imagine a perfectly circular thin copper disc, and that this disc...

Thanks for the reply Borek. So would it be something more like: Ag[(H2O)2]+ (aq) -> AgOH (s) + H3O+ (aq) and then: 2AgOH (s) -> Ag2O + H2O This is a complete guess btw, and here I cannot see where the OH- ions would come into play. Also I'm interested in exactly how the AgOH...

Hi :) I've been having some trouble getting my head around Tollens' solution, but especially the mechanisms in its preparation. There is next to no information on the internet regarding its mechanisms and my chemistry knowledge isn't advanced enough to be able to really make any idea of...