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Alex Chen 1B

In 18, the 2 refers to the carbon that the alcohol is attached to, which is the second carbon in the three-carbon chain. In 19, the alcohol is named in the same way with the 2-hexanol, which tells you that the alcohol is attached to the second carbon in the six-carbon chain. The fact that that's a s...

Alex Chen 1B

Enzymes are just biological catalysts that catalyze biochemical reactions. So all enzymes are catalysts, but not all catalysts are enzymes.

Alex Chen 1B

The rate of a reaction with a lower activation energy barrier isn't as affected by increasing temperature because once the reaction reaches a temperature that allows it to get over its energy barrier, the rate basically stays the same. The rate of a reaction with a higher activation energy barrier, ...

Alex Chen 1B

The equation the solution manual uses is just a slightly different form of the ln [A]t = -kt + ln [A]not equation. When you solve for -kt, you get ln ([A]t/[A]not) and then the solution manual just divided the everything by -1 to get kt = -ln ([A]t/[A]not) = ln ([A]not/[A]t), which is just a princip...

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Gibbs free energy is the amount of energy available to do work, so the delta G of a redox reaction is the maximum amount of work that can be done by the reaction.

Alex Chen 1B

Chapter 14.57 in the textbook asks: Aqueous solutions of (a) Mn2; (b) Al3; (c) Ni2; (d) Au3 with concentrations of 1.0 mol/L are electrolyzed at pH 7. For each solution, determine whether the metal ion or water will be reduced at the cathode. I thought electrolysis meant that your redox reaction is ...

Alex Chen 1B

No I don't think we have to. I don't remember that being in the course reader.

Alex Chen 1B

The problem tells you that there are initially 0.0300 moles of SO2 and 0.0300 moles of O2 present in the cylinder. They give you the equation for the reaction, so all you have to do is figure out which reactant will completely react given the initial quantities. So in this case, if all of the O2 wer...

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For a), I just did stoichiometry to find the heat absorbed. For b), you have to use PV = nRT to find the moles of N2 that were oxidized, and then you can use stoichiometry to find the heat that this reaction absorbed because you know that 180.6 kJ of heat are released for every 1 mole of N2 that was...

Alex Chen 1B

Enthalpy is the measure of how much heat is released or absorbed at a constant pressure and heat is defined as the transfer of energy due to temperature difference. So I think enthalpy can be thought of as a measure of the transfer of energy in a chemical reaction.

Alex Chen 1B

No, I don't think so. I remember learning in AP Chem that the number of sig figs you have becomes the number of decimal places in the pH value (ex. 3 sig figs = 3.000). But the textbook solutions are given in a way that the number of sig figs you have are the sig figs in the answer (ex. 3 sig figs =...

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Since 2 NH3 -> N2 + 3H2 is the reverse reaction of N2 + 3H2 -> 2 NH3, you just have to take the inverse of the K of N2 + 3H2 -> 2 NH3 to get the K of 2 NH3 -> N2 + 3H2. This works because the equilibrium expression for N2 + 3H2 -> 2 NH3 is [NH3]^2/[N2][H2]^3 and the equilibrium expression for 2 NH3 ...

Alex Chen 1B

The Z>8 and Z<8 only applies for homonuclear molecules, which are molecules that have atoms of the same element, and it's the atomic number of that element. For molecules with different atoms (heteronuclear), you always use the MO diagram for Z<8.

Alex Chen 1B

Since you have 3 K+ cations, you have to balance the 3+ charge to get a neutral net charge. So the anion, which is the coordination compound in this case, has to have a charge of 3-.

Alex Chen 1B

We only include the concentration of aqueous solutions and gases in the equilibrium expression because their concentrations can change. The molar concentration of pure substances that are in liquid and solid form don't change, so we leave them out.

Alex Chen 1B

When you're writing the formula for the coordination compound, the ligands are written in alphabetical order according to their symbols. So for example, pentaaquachloridoiron(II) ion is written as [FeCl(OH2)5]+. Cl comes before OH2 alphabetically, so you written them in that order despite the fact t...

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Since the electron being removed from C2- is in a higher energy molecular orbital, it takes less energy to remove it. It's the same concept as the periodic trend for ionization energy. The valence electrons of elements lower in the periodic table are in higher energy orbitals than the electrons of e...

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The VSEPR formula for XeF2 is AX2E3. Since there are five regions of electron density around Xe, the geometry of the molecule is trigonal bipyramidal. The three lone pairs have to be the three regions of electron density that are in one plane, because this minimizes the lone pair-lone pair repulsion...

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The N in Structure 2 can form a double bond and have two lone pairs because one of the bonds in the double bond is a coordinate covalent bond, which means that one of the atoms in the bonded pair supplies both electrons for the bond. So in this case, one electron in the double bond came from left-mo...

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Electron distortion is when the electrons of the anion are attracted to the cation, which causes the shape of the electron density to change slightly. When we talk about ionic bonds, we usually think it means a bond where the more electronegative atom has completely removed an electron from the less...

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It becomes harder to remove an electron when an atom has a net positive charge because the attraction that the nuclear charge exerts per electron gets larger. For example, if you have a neutral nitrogen atom, it has 7 electrons. The nuclear charge exerted by the 7 protons in the nucleus is distribut...

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They give you the work function of lithium in the problem, which is 2.93 eV. You can find the conversion from eV to J online and it's 1 J = 6.2415*10^18 eV. Since the work function is equal to the threshold energy necessary to eject an electron from the metal surface, you can use it to figure out th...

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Yes, the R's in the Rydberg formula and the En formula are different variables. If you use the En formula, subtract E(initial) from E(final) and set it equal to h*c/(wavelength), you can derive the Rydberg formula. The R in the Rydberg formula is equal to the quotient of the R from the En formula an...

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You shouldn't round during the problem, but you should definitely keep track of the sig figs on each calculation that you make as you progress through the problem. And once you reach your final answer, figure out how many sig figs there are based on the sig figs of your previous calculations. One me...

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