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Use this tag for questions relating to organic molecules and their properties (structure of organic molecules, spectroscopic properties, reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry etc). DO NOT use this tag as the only tag in your question, as this tag by itself cannot appropriately classify your question. Always use this tag in addition to other more specific tags.

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Why are peroxides explosive?

Why do peroxides tend to explode with little provocation? In general, what are typical products of their explosion?
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Why is mercury a "fancy proton"?

I remember that one of my old organic chemistry profs referred to mercury as being a "fancy proton". I think it was in the context of oxymercuration reduction. What might have been his rationale for …
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Why is an alcohol proton so shielded?

Considering how electronegative oxygen is, why is the chemical shift of alcohol protons (1H-NMR) not so high? The chemical shifts of the protons on 3-propanol are about 1.20 for the carbon-1 hydrogens …
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