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What is Paramagnetism?

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Electrons align with the magnetic fields and then return to orientation in absence of magnetic fields.

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What is Diamagnetism?

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Electrons resist alignment with magnetic field even in presence of an external magnetic field.

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What is Ferromagnetism?

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Electrons are strongly aligned even in absence of an external magnetic field.

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What is the relationship between Keq and ∆G?

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They are opposites within the same process. When Keq is greater than 1, then ∆G is less than 1 and this would be a spontaneous reaction. Vice Versa is to be assumed.

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Arrhenius definition only works with…

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Water! It can be applied only to reactions that occur in water because it defines acids and bases in terms of what happens when compounds dissolve in water.

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What are the Arrhenius base and acid rules?

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Arrhenius Acids are hydronium ion donors. Arrhenius Bases are hydronium ion acceptors. Hydronium is H3O+..

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pH = ?

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pH = -log (H+) or pOH = -log (OH-)

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What is the relationship between Acids/Bases and their conjugates?

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Strong acids make weaker conjugate bases. Weaker acids make stronger conjugate bases.

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What are the Strong Acids to memorize?

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HCl, HBr, HI, H2SO4 (sulfuric acid), HNO3 (nitric acid), HClO3 (chloric acid), HClO4 (perchloric acid)

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What are the Weak Acids to memorize?

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CH3COOH (acetic acid), H2CO3 (carbonic acid), HCN (hydrocyanic acid), HF, H3PO4 (phosphoric acid)

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What are the Strong Bases to memorize?

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NaOH, KOH, CsOH, Ca(OH)2, Ba(OH)2, Sr(OH)2, hydroxides made from group 1 (alkali) metals

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What are the Weak Acids to memorize?

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NH3 (ammonia), NH4OH (ammonium hydroxide), C5H5N (Pyridine)

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What is the reduction potential?

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Measured in volts and its energy per amount of charge. The tendency of a chemical to be reduced by gaining an electron. Higher electronegativity means higher reduction potential. Negative reduction potentials mean movement from positive side of battery to the negative.

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AN OX
RED CAT

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Electrons ALWAYS move from the anode to the cathode. The anode is oxidation and the cathode is reduction. Anions move toward the anode and cations move to the cathode.

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Galvanic Cell

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  • Gets energy from spontaneous redox reactions
  • Eₒ is positive
  • ∆G is negative
  • Cathode is (+)
  • Anode is (-)
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Electrolytic Cell

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  • Requires DC battery or AC source
  • Eₒ is negative
  • ∆G is positive
  • Cathode is (-)
  • Anode is (+)
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17
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Nucleophilic Addition

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A nucleophile forms a sigma bond with an electron-deficient species. Can’t take place in the presence of excessive steric hinderance.

3 Steps:
1. Electrophilic carbonyl carbon bonds with nucleophile
2. Carbon-oxygen double bond is now broken, forming an alkoxide intermediate (oxygen has a negative charge).
3. Alkoxide gets protonated, making alcohol that is also attached to the nucleophile

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Electrophile vs. Nucleophile

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Electrophiles are lewis acids with positive charges. Nucleophiles are lewis bases with negative charges and they can use their electrons to make new bonds.
Aldehydes are better electrophiles than ketones.

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What make the best Leaving Groups?

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  • Stable on its own
  • Weakest bases and low energy
  • Can take electrons and be stable with that negative charge or can spread out the negative charge

Examples: Water, alcohol, ethers, halides (the bigger the better), inorganic esters (H2PO4, HNO3), tosylates

Note: Anhydrides are good leaving groups as well

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What makes the weakest Leaving Groups?

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  • Not stable

Example: hydroxides, alkoxides, carbanions, hydride (H-)

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21
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The relationship between pKa and acidity is…

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pKa and acidity are inverse. As the pKa lowers, the acidity increases. The more positive the more acidic, the more negative the more basic.

22
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What is the difference between polar protic and polar aprotic solvents?

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Polar Protic: have protons and hydrogen bonding, the nucleophilicity of the halides increases down the table

Polar Aprotic: have no electrons to donate and no hydrogen bonding, the nucleophilicity of the halides increases up the table

23
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Geminal and Vicinal Hack!

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Gemini twins - Geminal
Same Vicinity - Vicinal

24
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Aldol Condensation

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When you add a base to a ketone, an enolate will be formed. Then, if you react this enolate with a ketone, it will become an aldol.

Enolates have a C=C bond with one of the carbons being bonded to an oxygen-carrying the negative charge.

25
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Strong Oxidizing Agents are…

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  • KMnO4, Na2Cr2O7, Jones’ Reagent
  • CrO3, H2SO4 in Acetone
    H2CrO4

Makes Carboxylic Acids

26
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Strong Reducing Agents are…

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LiAlH4
Carboxylic Acid -> Primary Alcohol
Ketone -> Secondary Alcohol
Ester -> Alcohol
Amide -> Amine

27
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Weak Oxidizing Agents are…

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PCC
Converts primary alcohols to aldehydes, and secondary alcohols to ketones

28
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Weak Reducing Agents are…

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NaBH4
Converts aldehyde to primary alcohol and ketone to secondary alcohol.

29
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Tollen’s Reagent

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  • Only oxidizes aldehydes to acids
  • distinguish between aldehydes and ketones to identify reducing sugars
  • Aldose give positive results (as well as terminal alpha-hydroxyketose)
  • similar to Fehling’s and Benedict’s reagent
30
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Tautomerization Note

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Only happens where there is no alpha hydrogren.
Tautomerization begins when the partially negative electrons on the alcohol oxygen reach down to attack the sp2 (C=C) carbon atom

31
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SN1 vs. SN2

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SN1: polar protic solvents only, the most stable carbocation has the fastest rate due to the electron donating groups
SN2: polar aprotic solvents only, needs a strong nucleophile

SN1 involves one molecule while Sn2 involves two molecules.

32
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Oxidation vs. Reduction Hack

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Oxidation is gaining bonds to oxygen.
Reduction is gaining bonds to hydrogen.

33
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Citric Acid Cycle Mnemonic

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Can I Keep Selling Seashells for money, Officer?
Citrate - Isocitrate - Ketoglutarate - Succinyl CoA (allosteric inhibitor) - Succinate - Fumarate - Malate - Oxaloacetate

34
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Weak Bases do not…

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Weak Bases do not dissociate completely in water.

35
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Relationship between atomic radii and ionization energy

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As the atomic radii increases, ionization energy decreases

36
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What is the difference between beta minus and beta plus decay?

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Beta minus decay is electron emission where a neutron converts into a proton so the atomic # increases by one.

Beta plus decay is positron emission where a proton will become a neutron so the atomic # decreases by one.

37
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Diamagnetic attracts or repels…

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Diamagnetic weakly repels magnets and they are antiparallel to the magnetic field.

38
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What is the purpose of contrast agents in MRIs?

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Contrast agents increase MRI signals by increasing relaxivity of water molecules

39
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How can you tell Disproportionation from Frost Diagram?

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If above slope of two adjacent points on the line, it is likely to undergo disproportionation.

40
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What is the reduction potential of voltaic/galvanic?

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Positive! So that you should reverse the reaction to create a positive reduction potential and then add the reduction potentials together

41
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How are glycosidic bonds formed?

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The hydroxyl oxygen attacks the anomeric carbon of the hemiacetal forming the acetaal

42
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How many hydrogen bonds are between each of the nitrogenous base pair?

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A-T have 2 hydrogen bonds and G-C have hydrogen bonds.

43
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What is the relationship between respiratory rate and blood CO2?

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A lower respiratory rate means a higher blood CO2 and a higher H+ and carbonic acid.

44
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Relationship between Electronegativity and Nucleophilicity

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As the proposed atoms get more electronegative, the nucleophilicity increases.

45
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To Find Binding affinity of a substrate for its ligand…

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Kd = [S][L]/[S-L]

46
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What can you read from reduction potentials?

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A positive reduction potential means that the reaction was reduced when paired with hydrogen. A negative reduction potential means that the reaction was oxidized when paired with hydrogen.

Whichever one has the higher reduction potential is reduced and the other is oxidized.

47
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In a Spontaneous reaction, E cell is…

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Positive!

Also the species that gets reduced had the large reduction potential and the species that is oxidized has the smaller reduction potential.

Ecell = larger reduction potential - smaller reduction potential

48
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In a nonspontaneous reaction, E cell is…

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Negative!

Also, the oxidized species has a larger reduction potential and the reduced species has a smaller reduction potential.

Ecell = smaller reduction potential - larger reduction potential

49
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If you see a voltmeter as a diagram,

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You are most likely looking at a galvanic cell.

Current flowing cathode to anode, electrons flowing anode to cathode.

50
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In a galvanic/voltaic cell, the cathode is the site of…

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reduction!

51
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KD and Binding affinity have an …. relationship

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Dissociation constant is small so the binding affinity is large.

52
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Amphipathic helices have hydrophobic residues every…

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3 to 4 residues!

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