A Key Skill: How to Calculate Formal Charge
Hey! Welcome to Master Organic Chemistry, just in case you’re a first time visitor. In this blog post I explain how to calculate formal charge for molecules.
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Walkthrough of Acid Base Reactions (2): Basicity
Last time I started writing about acid-base reactions. We looked at this list of stabilities of anions going across the topmost row of the periodic
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Let’s talk about carbonyl chemistry today (aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and esters). Specifically, reaction mechanisms. If you look at the reaction mechanisms in detail you
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