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### How does the silver nucleate on glass in Tollen's reagent mirroring?

I want to know the exact mechanism for how silver would start to grow during a mirroring with Tollen's reagent. I've made two pictures to illustrate how I see the nucleation/growth process of silver ...
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### How to calculate transition dipole moment from two known wavefunctions

I am interested in calculating the transition dipole moment (TDM) from the information from two wavefunctions of different states. This is somewhat similar to calculating the molecular dipole moment ...
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### In rovibrational spectra, when exactly is the Q branch forbidden?

I'm aware that the Q branch ($\Delta j = 0$) is usually not observed in rotational-vibrational spectra of diatomic molecules in the gas state, however, I've heard different things about when exactly ...
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### Some materials emit more photoelectrons than others - why?

I've been experimenting with some materials by changing the wavelength of the incident light on the material and detecting photoelectrons, like in the diagram below: I might get a response that looks ...
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### Do Cyclohexane-1,3-diones Give Positive Haloform Reactions?

Recently a post appeared on ChemSE asking why cyclohexane-1,3-dione (dihydroresorcinol) 1a doesn’t give a positive iodoform test. Unfortunately, the post was subsequently taken down after several ...
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### Manuals for a Cahn TG-171 Thermogravimetric Analyzer

Recently a Cahn TG-171 Thermogravimetric Analyzer was donated to my school. We did not get a service or user's manual with it, and some of it still needs to be put back together. I have tried to ...
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### Does CN4 with the following structure exist?

I am a mathematician, not a chemist, so my questions are rather combinatorial. I am intrigued by the possibility of the following binary compound: \ce{\overset{-}{N}=\overset{+}{N}=C=\overset{+}{N}=\...
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### Correlation between 1H and 13C shifts - coincidence or not?

A quick glance at any table of typical chemical shifts will reveal that the chemical shifts of protons $(\delta_\mathrm H)$ tend to correlate pretty well with the chemical shifts of the carbons to ...
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### Tetrahedrane Properties and Analogs

I took a look into some tetrahedrane ($\ce{C4H4}$) analogs, platonic hydrocarbon, basically very strained tetrahedral geometry at every carbon. I was wondering what will be the predicted delta H of ...
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### Can we use phosphorous triiodide in Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction?

With the help of HVZ reaction, we can get alpha-chloro or alpha-bromo carboxylic acid. But can we make alpha-iodocarboxylic acid with the help of HVZ reaction? I could not find any reference of HVZ ...
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### MNDO integrals in the global coordinate system

In MNDO and its descendants (Sewart's PMx models, Austin's AM1, MNDO/d, etc.), the nonvanishing two-center two-electron "coulomb integrals" are evaluated via a classical multipole expansion in a local ...
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### What is d-orbital collapse?

When I was perusing the works of Schwarz on atomic structure, I came across the unfamiliar term of d-orbital collapse. He describes it as a variation in energetic sequence from group 1 to 3 elements ...
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### Can pi backdonation occur on non-metal centers?

The common example of back-donation is the interaction of a CO molecule with a metal center (d-orbitals) on a surface. Can a similar mechanism occur between CO and a non-metal center, like oxygen on ...
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### What is the largest coupled cluster calculation that has ever been done (as of March 2019)?

I am doing some research and trying to make sure the numbers I am reporting are accurate. I found that the paper by Sylvetsky et. al. says:[1] We were, however, able to complete a ...