reaction-mechanism

  1. What is the actual mechanism of Fenton reaction?

  2. Bromination of 1,3,5-cyclooctatriene followed by nucleophilic substitution by excess dimethylamine

  3. How do I isolate calcium from calcium carbonate?
  4. Dehydration of secondary alcohol via E1 mechanism
  5. What is the purpose of ammonium chloride in anti hydrogenation of alkynes?

  6. Difference between reactions

  7. What is the difference between "reaction pathway" and "reaction mechanism"?

  8. Why may a range of molecules be produced between OH- and 2-bromobutane?

  9. The role of halogens in electrophilic aromatic substitution

  10. Why does the E1cb mechanism proceed in the specific way it does?

  11. What is the difference between an 'elementary reaction' and a 'concerted reaction'?

  12. How to convert benzamide to benzylamine?

  13. Question regarding two ionic solutions Copper Sulfate and Zinc Sulfate

  14. Reaction of glucose with hydroiodic acid

  15. Relative reactivities of alkyl halides in an E2 reaction

  16. Making sense of a chemical equation

  17. At what ratio of reactants can a reaction be assumed to go to completion

  18. Confusion in Peroxide effect mechanism in Propene

  19. HI/P reduction mechanism

  20. Mechanism of a dephenylation reaction

  21. SnCl2 that I prepared in distilled water was not homogeneous. Please how can I make a clear and transparent stannous chloride?

  22. What makes bond break apart from heat?

  23. Why does the alkyl group anti to the hydroxyl migrate in Beckmann rearrangement?
  24. Reaction between a carbene and n-pentane

  25. Can the electrophile attack at the position of the NH2 group in nitration of aniline?

  26. Comparing SN2 reaction rates

  27. Reaction mechanism of a terminal alkene with an anhydride

  28. Reaction of conjugated alkene with KNH2

  29. Chlorosulfonation mechanism

  30. Simple example of external magnetic field direction sensitivity of radical pair reaction rate?

  31. Textbook suggests secondary alkyl halides do not undergo SN1 reaction

  32. Will this beta-branched secondary alkyl halide undergo SN1 or SN2?

  33. Why can't an enolate anion successfully displace a halogen from a benzene?

  34. Calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid
  35. What is the mechanism for the oxidation of a lactol to a lactone?
  36. What is the mechanism for oxidation of ketones by the Popoff's rule?

  37. Briggs-Rauscher Reaction Temperature vs Oscillation Period

  38. Victor Meyer's test for alcohol

  39. Role of solvents in ozonolysis and oz0nolysis of alkynes with water

  40. Regenerating a Cobalt Acetate Catalyst

  41. Differentiating between Prins reaction / ene reaction experimentally

  42. What does ad stand for in this chemical reaction?

  43. Hydroxyl group to free amine in polyethylene glycol using CDI?

  44. How can aqueous KOH give alcohol by SN2 of alkyl halide?

  45. Prins reaction mechanism

  46. How can we separate carbon monoxide from wood gas?

  47. Reaction of cyclohexyl methyl ketone with phosphorus pentachloride

  48. Carbonyl group as nucleophile

  49. Carbonyl oxygen as nucleophile

  50. Reaction of alcohols with PCl5 and PCl3

  51. Why is it only electrons that take part in chemical reactions?

  52. How does the HCl-KCl Buffer work?
  53. Compare rate of hydrohalogenation between 1,2-diphenylethene and 1-phenylpropene

  54. The decarboxylation of phenylacetic acid via addition of acid

  55. Deciding E1/E2/SN1/SN2 for cyanide ion

  56. Mechanism of arene side chain oxidation by permanganate

  57. Acid Catalysed Ring Expansion – Mechanism?
  58. Mechanism for acylation of a cyclic anhydride

  59. What anions does the loss of a proton from HOCN and HNCO produce? Are they same or different?

  60. Why does adipic acid give a cyclic ketone on heating while glutaric acid and succinic acid give a cyclic anhydride?

  61. Transformation of an epoxido-carboxylic acid to an aldehyde

  62. Electrophilic Substitution

  63. Heating p-Bromobenzenesulfonic acid in the presence of dilute HCl

  64. Ring expansion of two fused rings to a larger ring

  65. Why does a mixture of nitrous acid with concentrated nitric acid cause nitration of benzene instead of nitrosation?

  66. Rate of electrophilic bromination of toluene and ethylbenzene
  67. Mechanism of acetylene formation from iodoform and silver
  68. Nucleophilic addition of grignard reagent
  69. Does isopropyl chloride undergo SN1 or SN2 with sodium acetate?

  70. SN1, SN2 or acid-base reaction

  71. Why is phenyl shift preferred over methyl shift in cumene hydroperoxide reaction?
  72. Friedel Crafts reaction of anisole
  73. Reaction mechanism for reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline in catalytic and acidic media

  74. Does aldol condensation give different products in different conditions?

  75. Which compound reacts faster in the Cannizzaro Reaction?

  76. Does the iodoform reaction form hydrogen iodide or water?

  77. Rearrangement of an oxyallyl cation
  78. Kinetic Isotopic Effect in EAS

  79. Same set of carboxylate reagents yielding two different products with an alkylide

  80. Are groups other than carbonyl reduced by Clemmensen reduction?
  81. How to convert benzene to 2-nitrostyrene as the major product?

  82. Decomposition of potassium permanganate under prolonged heating

  83. How can a methyl halide react by intramolecular SN2?

  84. How is it possible, that the hydrolysis of ethers proceed via a SN2 mechanism?

  85. Deciding more electrophilic centre for SN type reaction

  86. Hydrolysis of 4-chloro-3,3-dimethylbut-1-ene forms which products much faster than primary alkyl halides?
  87. Does double replacement reaction only happen to aqueous reactants?

  88. Siloxane condensation mechanism

  89. NGP mechanism vs the simple carbocation mechanism

  90. Why does alcoholic KOH prefer elimination whereas aqueous KOH prefers substitution?

  91. Use of aqueous KOH and alcoholic KOH in dehydrohalogenation reactions

  92. Can hydride shift and methyl shift happen one after another in a carbocation?

  93. SN1 like reaction acid-cataylzed hydrolysis of epoxide

  94. Why is SN2 favored greatly over SN2' in this reaction?

  95. Number of intermediates and transition states in hydration of given alkene

  96. Is an SN1 reaction possible in halobenzene?

  97. Chemical reaction to create a delayed mark on skin

  98. Which is the better leaving group in the following Cannizzaro reaction?

  99. What is the major product in the reaction of 2,3-dichlorobutane with sodium amide in liquid ammonia?

  100. 1,2-dibromopropane reaction with OH and NaNH2