Questions tagged [reference-request]
This tag is for questions looking for a single specific, or a small number of (citable) references.
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f-electrons in chemistry of heavy transition metals
In one lecture on recent MCR-X conference I was puzzled by a side-note "f-hole is critical to describe DoS of $\ce{IrO2}$ correctly." The context was DFT periodic plane-wave calculations with ...
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Newer ionic radii data than Shannon's 1976 compilation?
Shannon, R. D., 1976, Revised effective ionic radii and systematic studies of interatomic distances in halides and chalcogenides: Acta Crystallographica Section A, v. 32, p. 751–767. DOI: 10.1107/...
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Free Web-Based Orbital Solver to look into the Walsh orbitals of a perturbed cyclopropane
There exists a free online orbital calculator.
When I draw cyclopropane it plots three molecular orbitals, but unfortunately it doesn't use the Walsh orbitals.
Are there any free online tools which ...
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How are polarizabilities measured experimentally?
Most common spectroscopies that produce either a full spectrum, a tensor, or a scalar value have a specific instrument associated with them that is relatively self-contained and not custom. For ...
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Where to find experimental spin-orbit coupling constants?
I am searching for experimental spin-orbit coupling constants, particularly for main group elements and Cr(0) to calculate correlation consistent Composite Approach (ccCA) energetics. This method ...
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Tables/database/literature of specific or optical rotation
I'm looking for a comprehensive reference of experimental specific rotation or optical rotation data. It can be a published literature review, a free web database with API access or one that permits ...
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Accurate textbook about synthesis of (organophosphorus) chemical warfare agents
Lately I've been interested in the chemistry of nerve agents due to reading Patrick's Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry in which they were only briefly discussed. I bought the Handbook of Toxicology ...
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What is the most accepted explanation of aurophilicity?
Gold has a special property called aurophilicity. Inorganic chemistry by Huheey has some explanation, but that was not enough to clear the conception.
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Reaction rate constants for methane combustion
I can't find a rate constant or activation energy for the methane combustion reaction given by:
$$\ce{ CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2O}$$
Do all reactions have a rate constant? The NIST web site lists ...
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Advanced Quantum Chemistry Reference for Reactivity Phenomena
I'm currently in organic synthesis seeking to develop quantitative "physical" (that of a physicist), rather than "chemical", intuition for areas where traditional VSEPR/ MO models cannot fully ...
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How to get the second electron affinity of tellurium?
I need the value of the second electron affinity of Te, i.e. the energy change associated with the attachment of an electron to a $\ce{Te-}$ anion
$$\ce{Te- + e- -> Te^{2-}}$$
In the books (e.g. J. ...
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Approximate magnetic susceptibility of these liquid propellants?
This question asks if the comparatively large paramagnetic susceptibility of liquid oxygen (LOX) is considered when designing rocket tank and engine systems. This comment suggests fuels such as RP-1 (...
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Where can I obtain research material on the synthesis of polypyrrole?
I'm studying Chemistry at A-level and a large part of the course is a researcher paper that takes most of the year.
Conductive polymers interest me. I'm struggling to find any surfeited researcher on ...
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Consumer Report for Lab Equipment
I'm just wondering if anybody here knows of a Consumer-Report-like publication for lab equipment. Something that would give the specifics, as, for example, the flow rate of a distilling condenser, etc....
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How to tell 'orthokinetic' apart from 'perikinetic' based on their prefixes?
During a test in colloid and surface chemistry, students were asked to distinguish between two terms: orthokinetic and perikinetic coagulation.
The rate of aggregation is in general determined by ...
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How to get the SMILES from structure without software?
Usually I use online programs and structure drawing tools to find the SMILES of a compound. How to find the SMILES without software? Where to find resources to learn it?
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Typical values of activation energies?
Where can I find typical values of the Arrhenius activation energy for arbitrary reactions? I only want to have orders of magnitude estimates, but so far I have not been able to find any good resource ...
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Error hunting: Guidelines on detecting error cancellation and locating their sources as much as possible?
It is known in computational chemistry, when computing e.g. electronic ground states energy and geometric paramters (bond lengths, angles, torsions etc.) of a given molecule using an ab initio or DFT ...
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How/where can I find a reliable atomic radii table?
I am currently working on a periodic table to include it in a experimental chemistry book and I would like to include non-bonded atomic radii data so it would be easier for the students to learn about ...
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Material that acts as a “sponge” for sulfuric acid?
I would like help with a materials problem I am looking into that pertains to a product I would like to develop.
What I seek is some kind of substrate that acts like blotter paper does. Ideally, the ...
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Understanding mzML, specifically precursor mass
I'm a Biotechnologist and computer scientist, migrating into the field of Mass Spec. for my new position. Some things I know well, and others not at all. Please be patient :)
I'm working with OpenMS, ...
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Relative etch rates of nitric acid on metals and oxides
I am trying to either find or calculate the etch rate of nitric acid ($\ce{HNO3}$) for various different metals and oxides. The ones I am interested in are titanium ($\ce{Ti}$), zirconium ($\ce{Zr}$), ...
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Graph of compounds/reactions used on the industrial scale
I'm looking for a machine-readable database describing industrially useful reactions in terms of inputs, outputs, and (possibly) catalyzers etc. for a large portion of, or (much more preferable) the ...
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What is the activation energy barrier of uncatalyzed nitrogen fixation?
I'm interested in the activation energy ($E_\mathrm a$) of uncatalyzed aqueous nitrogen fixation:
$$\ce{3 H2 + N2 -> 2 NH3}$$
Biology performs this reaction with the nitrogenase enzyme at room ...
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Which material are piezoelectric buzzers made of?
Which material are these buzzers made of?
Does it depend on the manufacturer or they all are made of the same material? The Wikipedia page does not say anything about the material. I found some ...
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Antisymmetrized Product of Strongly Orthogonal Geminal (APSG) method
To get a deeper understanding of electronic structure methods, like Hartree-Fock, MP2, and Coupled Cluster method, there are many small programs (codes) available in Python, C++ or Fortran, for ...
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Carbon monoxide from activated charcoal filters
We use activated charcoal in air filters of the ventilation system to remove pollutant vapours from the exhaust air. Before the filters, the air is heated a bit to avoid condensation of water. ...
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Single crystal LiF solid state NMR
I haven't been able to find any literature on $\ce{^{19}F}$ solid state NMR studies of $\ce{LiF}$ crystals, not even $\ce{LiF}$ powders. Is there any NMR chemists who is familiar with $\ce{LiF}?$ Any ...
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Can someone suggest me important references for deriving EOM in MCSCF?
I am currently starting a project dealing with MCSCF method. Can someone please give me references (papers or lecture notes are preferred) which may be considered as the "corner stones" in the history ...
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Help finding a thixotropic suspension with specific properties for 3d printing
I currently doing research on 3d printing on circuit boards. The technique we are using is to put a conductive material, I.e ceramics/metal in a gel/polymer, to print the suspension and then when is ...
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Reaction of PLA plastic with methane or carbon dioxide
PLA (polylactic acid) plastic is commonly used for 3D printing, and I would like to create a 3D printed part that can be used in an experiment with methane ($\ce{CH4}$) and carbon dioxide ($\ce{CO2}$) ...
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Reference for assignment of symmetry (term symbols) of electronic states
I am looking for a textbook and/or internet resource where I can find the reference for assignment of symmetry of electronic states systematically.
For example, $$ \ce{^1\Delta^{}_{g}}, \ce{^3\Sigma^{...
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Brownian motion of colloids at high density
Colloidal particles in dilute suspensions tend to perform a universal type of Brownian motion at finite temperature, according to the Stokes Einstein relation $D\approx\frac{k_BT}{6\pi \eta r}$ in the ...
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Looking for solubility kinetics of zinc chloride hydroxide monohydrate
$\ce{Zn5(OH)8Cl2.H2O}$ is a crystalline solid insoluble in water. Often used as nutritional supplement. Preparation and chemistry of zinc chloride hydroxide monohydrate is known. I am looking for some ...
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Reference request for properties of amorphous titanium carbide (a-TiC)
I assume through some side reaction I'm getting $\ce{TiC}$ in my $\ce{TiO2}$ samples after calcination and I need some basic information about the properties of amorphous $\ce{TiC}$.
Is it ...
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What is the explanation of the odd even effect in liquid crystals?
What is the most accepted theory for explaining the odd even effect in liquid crystals? Can anyone explain and refer the corresponding paper?
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Ink / formulation chemistry: What lab requirements
Little open information can be found on the requirements of the manufacture, development and testing of gel and printing inks.
It seems that most ink manufacturers have their own specific lab ...
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Nomenclature in Other languages
Even one letter can make a huge difference in Chemistry Nomenclature. So I am looking for credible resources that is specifically published for explaining Nomenclature rules, examples in Spanish. Any ...
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Delta G values for Pyruvate--> Alanine vs. Oxaloacetate -> Aspartate ->Asparagine
What are the delta G values for the mammalian (human) biosynthesis of alanine from pyruvate, and for the conversion of oxaloacetate to asparagine? (assuming no particular cellular restriction or other ...
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Graph theory, isomer enumeration and chemical graph theory
Where could we find a good description of graph theory applied to the general problem of isomer enumeration and chemical graph theory?
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Reference to find dielectric constants and dielectric relaxation time
I am working on a Master degree and need to know the following data :
The static (low frequency) dielectric constant of isopropanol at 25 °C
The Optical (high frequency) dielectric constant of ...
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How to dissolve PLA/PCL/PMMA?
I have a research about electrospun membrane synthesis where I dissolve PLA pellets in chloroform:methanol (3:1) for 3 hours and also PCL pellets in chloroform:methanol (3:1) for 3 hours too. Another ...
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Determining the composition of basic copper sulfate by titrimetry
A colleague shared an undergraduate level classical gravimetry/titrimetry experiment on determining the stoichiometry of basic copper sulfate. I am looking for a reference for this type of experiment. ...
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Solubility product constant of copper(II) bromide in water
One of the questions from chegg.com mentions $K_\mathrm{sp}(\ce{CuBr2}) = 6.3\cdot 10^{-10}$, but I suspect this value might be incorrect.
Could anyone confirm or refute that $K_\mathrm{sp}$ value?
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Bond dissociation energy calculation
I am looking for methods to determine the dissociation free energy in a precise way, ideally from a simulations. My hope is to get the most precise values possible that are specific to the structure ...
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Does Raney nickel deprotect acetals?
I know that Raney nickel can deprotect thioacetals. Can it deprotect acetals as well?
I found this image which shows that it deprotects and removes many protecting groups. But there was no reference ...
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Readings about chiral resolutions at the undergraduate level
Does anyone know of a resource which clearly explains the scientific theory and experimental methods involved in chiral resolutions?
I have access to the American Chemical Society, Tetrahedron, ...
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Where can I find a downloadable database of basic physical and chemical properties?
The web has many online databases of properties of compounds locked behind search interfaces, but I can't find anything you can actually download.
I want a corpus of data that might allow me to, say, ...
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For Penicillin Binding proteins, why is the Enzyme-peptide complex less stable than an enzyme-β-lactam complex?
I'm trying to figure this out. I cannot find any publications that go into good detail about the chemistry of PBP inhibition by β-lactam antibiotics.
PBPs cross-link adjacent pentapeptides to form ...
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What are some notable results from the field of mathematical chemistry?
I recently found that there is actually a small field of research called mathematical chemistry. It seems that a lot of the research done in this field focuses on graph-theory as applied to chemistry, ...
