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Jerry Wang 1L

Both IUPAC and common naming are accepted according to Lavelle. Common naming is more convenient compared to IUPAC because it is shorter (as you will see in the following). For example, the strict IUPAC naming of the compound you have provided will be 1,1-dimethyl-2-(1-methylethyl)-cyclopentane. (Fe...

Jerry Wang 1L

You can think of Z as having the higher priority groups on the same side of the molecule (also known as "cis" and hence the mnemonic "Zee Zame Zide") and E as having the higher priority groups on the opposite sides of the molecule (also known as "trans"). When looking a...

Jerry Wang 1L

Hello, The Gibb's free energy is always going to be positive for the energy of activation because by definition, energy must be pumped into the system in order to overcome that energy barrier (or else it wouldn't be called energy of activation if it happened by itself!). Suppose that the Gibb's free...

Jerry Wang 1L

The negative signs in equations must be observed. I would recommend you to go through the derivation process again to see how each one came about (because some of the kinetics equations don't have negative signs because of how the mathematics works out) but from the foundational equations such as d[...

Jerry Wang 1L

A good example of 0 order is when the surface of a catalyst is saturated with the reactants (i.e all of its surface is covered by the reactant). Thus, no matter how much more you may increase the concentration of the reactants, the rate will still remain as k because those additional reactant molecu...

Jerry Wang 1L

Firstly, you would rank by the complexity (i.e number of atoms) of the molecule. Those with higher complexities will have higher entropies. However, in this case, the molecules all have the same number of atoms. So, in order to arrange these molecules by entropies, we proceed to look at molar weight...

Jerry Wang 1L

Hi, To my knowledge, it is not possible to get entropy change from only the enthalpy change. Temperature must be known. If we look at the units, this is already telling because entropy is in J/K while enthalpy is in J (or kJ). q often is the enthalpy change, of which when we divide by temperature, w...

Jerry Wang 1L

Hello Riley, Yes. We would use this approach if they ask you to use Hess's Law to find the enthalpy change associated with a reaction they want. In order to do this, the enthalpy change of the other reactions they want you to manipulate should be given (like how it was given in this problem). The en...

Jerry Wang 1L

Hello, So this problem is dealing with Hess's Law, that is manipulating equations and their delta H's to give the desired chemical equation. There are multiple ways to think about this but I will lead you through mine. I recommend you to write it out on paper and follow each step because it is prett...

Jerry Wang 1L

When we are multiplying the O2 reactant by 3/2 to balance this chemical reaction, there is no need to multiply the corresponding ΔH by 3/2. Balancing the equation is a separate idea from the multiplying the entire equation and its corresponding ΔH technique in Hess's Law problems.

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