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Is there a general consensus on the causes of the alpha-effect?

organic-chemistry thermodynamics kinetics theoretical-chemistry
May 31 '19 at 10:34 Community♦ 1
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Ortho-effect in substituted aromatic acids and bases

organic-chemistry acid-base aromatic-compounds amines
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Regioselectivity of acid-catalyzed ring-opening of epoxides

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism erratum regioselectivity
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Why does nitration of N,N-dimethylaniline occur at the meta position?

organic-chemistry aromatic-compounds nitro-compounds
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Stereoselectivity of dihydroxylation with osmium tetroxide

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism stereoselectivity
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Why does hyperconjugation help for ring cleavage?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism orbitals hyperconjugation
Oct 6 '16 at 10:10 orthocresol♦ 57.5k
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Unusual Friedel–Crafts alkylation with pivaloyl chloride

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism aromatic-compounds carbocation
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Do vinyl cations adopt a classical or non-classical structure?

organic-chemistry molecular-structure carbocation
Mar 13 '18 at 6:29 Gaurang Tandon 8,246
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Stability of carbocations: CF3+ vs CH3+

organic-chemistry stability carbocation
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Are geminal disubstituted alkenes more stable than their cis/trans isomers?

organic-chemistry stability hydrocarbons
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Why is the exo product formed in the Diels–Alder reaction between furan and maleic anhydride?

organic-chemistry heterocyclic-compounds pericyclic stereoselectivity
Sep 21 '17 at 22:55 orthocresol♦ 57.5k
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Which is the more stable enol form?

organic-chemistry tautomer
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Reaction of furan with chloroform in base

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism aromatic-compounds heterocyclic-compounds
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What is the mechanism of the Clemmensen reduction?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism redox
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Formation of a stable hydrate

organic-chemistry equilibrium
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Stability of cyclobutyl methyl carbocation

organic-chemistry stability carbocation
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Stereoelectronic effects in carbamate carbonyl oxygen attack on halide

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism stereoelectronics
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Why does treatment of a geminal dihalide with sodium amide lead to an alkyne and not an allene?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism halides elimination regioselectivity
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Which factors determine the keto:enol ratio for aldehydes, ketones, and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds?

organic-chemistry equilibrium carbonyl-compounds
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What's the mechanism of the reaction of (E)-methyl 3-(furan-2-yl)acrylate in acidic methanol?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism carbonyl-compounds heterocyclic-compounds
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Converting a cis-alkene to trans-alkene

organic-chemistry synthesis
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Why can't phosphorus trifluoride be used as a Lewis acid catalyst in electrophilic substitution of benzene?

inorganic-chemistry acid-base
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Elimination reaction on 2-fluorobutane using alc.KOH

organic-chemistry
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Acidity of o-halobenzoic acids

organic-chemistry acid-base aromatic-compounds
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Prediction of products in reaction of dicarbonyl with alpha-haloketone

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism carbonyl-compounds
Feb 25 '18 at 7:44 Gaurang Tandon 8,246
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How to prove that chloroform is more acidic than fluoroform? [duplicate]

organic-chemistry acid-base
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Ring closure via intramolecular nucleophilic substitution or intermolecular dimerization: which is favoured?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism
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Which is most stable conformation of optically inactive butane-2,3-diol?

organic-chemistry stability conformers
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why do electron pairs not take axial positions in the VSEPR structure of ClF3? [duplicate]

hybridization molecular-structure vsepr-theory valence-bond-theory
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What is the most accepted mechanism for the reaction of ketones with m-dinitrobenzene?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism
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