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Hannah Markovic 3C

"Suppose you want to use methane gas (deltaH = -890 kJ/mol) to boil 50.0 mL of water at 25.0 degrees C. How many grams of methane gas would need to be combusted to generate the required heat?" The answer for this question only calculates the amount of heat to raise the water to 100 degrees...

Hannah Markovic 3C

No, tert is not taken into consideration for alphabetical ordering. I use INST to remember that iso and neo count for alphabetizing, while sec and tert do not.

Hannah Markovic 3C

A Triple bond forces the two carbons it is attached to to have an sp structure, which is 180 degrees and makes the bonds of that carbon be in a straight line. Therefore, triple bonds must always be drawn as straight lines. Single bonds are usually 109.5 degrees and one double bond would make 120 deg...

Hannah Markovic 3C

The chain of 4 is the same as the T-shaped chain. Carbon has an sp3 structure in alkanes, so it can rotate, and this is just a rotation of the same molecule. If you draw it with line structure instead of lewis structure you can see it a lot more easily - I would recommend using line structure to loo...

Hannah Markovic 3C

If they don't specify, you can use either one you want. If the questions says IUPAC then you have to use IUPAC. Just depends on what the question says.

Hannah Markovic 3C

You count in the direction that gives you lower numbers for the substituents.

Hannah Markovic 3C

Just so you know, the central carbon in a tert- substituent will actually be quaternary because it will also need to attach to the parent chain, so it is bonded to 4 other carbons. But the fact that it's bonded to 3 other carbons that are part of the substituent is probably where the tert- name come...

Hannah Markovic 3C

Yes, common names can also be used with unsaturated parent chains.

Hannah Markovic 3C

I think it is usually either resonance or if two atoms have a similar electronegativity, like with CN- or SCN-

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The ones that are part of the main chain will be the ones in the chain that has the largest amount of carbon atoms. The other carbons will be substituents coming off the main chain. If there are two equally long longest chains, you can use either one for naming and it will not matter which you choose.

Hannah Markovic 3C

Yes, there is a difference. If the products have lower energy, delta H is negative and the reaction is energetically favorable but not necessarily spontaneous. Remember delta G = delta H - T(delta S). A negative delta H makes it likely that the reaction is spontaneous, but if delta S is negative and...

Hannah Markovic 3C

Uppercase K is not a constant but is the ratio of products to reactants of a reaction at equilibrium. I think you mean lowercase k which is the rate constant for a reaction. This is just a number that you multiply the concentrations of the reactants by to get the rate of the reaction. Just don't get...

Hannah Markovic 3C

Why do you need to calculate delta G from H and S when you're finding K at different temperatures? Why is the value you get from that equation different from using delta G of formation values? This is how the answer key solved 11.83.

Hannah Markovic 3C

Also, reduction and cathode both start with consonants and anode and oxidation both start with vowels

Hannah Markovic 3C

Cl2 is more stable than 2Cl, since Cl appears as Cl2 in nature. In order to go from a more stable state to a less stable state, you have to put energy into the reaction, like how with radicals you have to put in energy to form them since they are unstable. Because the Cl2 needs to absorb energy from...

Hannah Markovic 3C

You have to draw the Lewis structures for the molecules in the equation, and from that you can see what bonds would have to be broken on the left and formed on the right to turn the reactants into products. So basically just look for the differences between the structures of the reactants and produc...

Hannah Markovic 3C

Not all phase changes are endothermic - just the ones you mentioned (vaporization, melting, and sublimation) are endothermic. The other three phase changes that go in the opposite direction (condensation, freezing, and deposition) are exothermic but not mentioned in the course reader because in calc...

Hannah Markovic 3C

When a bond is broken, the parts of the former molecule are now less stable than they were, especially if radicals are formed. They "do not want" to be less stable, so you need to use energy to force it into that state. On the other hand, atoms are more stable when bonded together, so they...

Hannah Markovic 3C

lone pairs are a region of electron density :)

Hannah Markovic 3C

Bond angles are only less than the values we memorize only when there are electron pairs that make the molecule not symmetric. Although XeF2 has three electron pairs, they are in a symmetrical arrangement around Xe so the bond angle is still exactly 180 degrees. The values we memorize are for when t...

Hannah Markovic 3C

The salt is there so that you can have a reaction that is trying to reach equilibrium. If you just add, say, HCl to water, you will have an acidic pH but this pH can be easily changed by adding more OH- or H+ ions because HCl is a strong acid and the H+ ions won't react with the Cl- ions when in wat...

Hannah Markovic 3C

I think you just look at how many hydrogens are attached to the molecule that would be reasonable to remove... For example H2SO4 is polyprotic because it has 2 hydrogens that can be removed (which is more than one, making it polyprotic). But HCl is not polyprotic because only one hydrogen is availab...

Hannah Markovic 3C

The previous answer is wrong. K=1 does not give any information about whether the reaction is at equilibrium. Q=K will tell you that the reaction is at equilibrium (rates of forward and reverse reactions are equal). K=1 just means that the concentration of reactants and of products are equal at equi...

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Hannah Markovic 3C

We can memorize either naming convention for coordination compounds as long as we use the same one the whole time on a test right? I wouldn't get docked if I used the new convention right?

Hannah Markovic 3C

Do we need to memorize all the names for ligands in coordination compounds that are on page 105 of the course reader? I know someone else asked this but this part didn't get answered.

Hannah Markovic 3C

Yes, I agree that you should draw the lewis structure first in order to find the number of sigma and pi bonds. Also, it's correct that only period 2 and higher elements can form pi bonds because hydrogen and helium will not form double bonds since their "octet" (2 electrons) is satisfied w...

Hannah Markovic 3C

I think the solutions didn't draw the bonds between the carbon and hydrogen just because they were kind of being lazy/simplifying the lewis structure. Usually in organic chem you will draw CH2s like that because you know that the carbon will just have one bond with each hydrogen so it isn't really n...

Hannah Markovic 3C

I'm fairly sure you can just use the shorthand electron configuration unless you're asked for the full version.

Hannah Markovic 3C

The first reply is not entirely correct. Yes, the number of valence electrons is the number of electrons in the outermost shell and the electron configuration of Ni is [Ar] 3d^8.4s^2. However, this makes the number of valence electrons of Nickel 2, not 10, because the d electrons are in the 3 shell ...

Hannah Markovic 3C

Wavelength is the distance before the wave begins to repeat itself. For example, wavelength is usually measured from peak to peak of a wave (the highest point of a wave) or from trough to trough (the lowest point of a wave). On the other hand, the frequency of a wave is the number of wavelengths tha...

Hannah Markovic 3C

Yeah, I think the other two are just for practice.

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2011 Final Question 1A

Re: "Tert-" Prefix

Re: Tripple bond line structure

Re: Structural Isomers

Re: IUPAC vs Common Name

Re: Naming Cycloalkanes

Re: "Tert-" Prefix

Re: Common Names

Re: Ambident Nucleophile

Re: Condensed structural formula

Re: Energetically Favorable vs. Spontaneous

Re: K

K from delta G at different temperatures

Re: Redox Reactions

Re: Enthalpy

Re: Bonds Formed v Bonds Broken

Re: Phase changes

Re: Required and Released Energy

Re: Clarification of lone pairs

Re: Question on molecules with linear shape

Re: Question about Buffers and Use of a Salt

Re: Polyprotic acids and bases

Re: When K=1

Re: Videos Submissions

Which naming convention?

Ligand names

Re: Sigma and Pi Bonds

Re: Ch.3 #95

Re: Electron Configuration

Re: Valence Electrons

Re: wavelength verbiage

Re: Green Workbook Quizzes