Chemical Properties of Methane (Oxidation)
Chemical Properties of Methane (Oxidation) Methane reacts with reactive substances under vigorous conditions. One such reactive substance is oxygen. Oxidation of methane or in other words combustion (complete) of methane (in fact for any hydrocarbon) results in formation carbon dioxide and water with release of heat. This oxidation is the major reaction occurring during the […]
Halogenation of Methane
Halogenation of Methane Methane reacts with most of the halogens except iodine. While it reacts vigorously with fluorine at room temperature and even at the dark condition, reactivity gradually goes down from chlorine to bromine. Methane interacts with chlorine at 250-400 °C or under the influence of ultraviolet rays (UV). The resulting products are a […]
Structure Elucidation
Structure Elucidation Structure elucidation is the process of determining the chemical structure of an unknown organic compound. It often involves the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR spectroscopy), mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy. NMR spectroscopy plays a very important role in structure elucidation. It can be of various types like proton, carbon, phosphorus- NMR, […]
UV-Visible Spectroscopy
UV- Visible Spectroscopy Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy is a technique used for structure elucidation of organic compounds. This technique is majorly used for identifying conjugated dienes, polyenes, unsaturated carbonyl compounds and aromatic compounds. Aliphatic organic compounds do not show any absorption peak in this region. With the help of Woodward Fieser Rules, we can predict the absorption […]
Infrared Spectroscopy
Infrared Spectroscopy Infrared spectroscopy is a technique for identifying different possible functional groups of organic compounds. Infrared spectra can be divided into two parts one is functional group region and other is fingerprint region. If the organic compounds are from the same family as methanol, ethanol, propanol, etc. then functional group region will give peaks […]
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) is most effective and efficient technique in structure elucidation of unknown organic compounds. There are various types of NMR techniques like proton, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus NMR but among them, 1H-NMR is most common and widely used to get an idea of hydrogens and their exact […]
Mass Spectroscopy
Mass Spectroscopy Mass spectroscopy is a technique for structure elucidation of unknown organic compounds which basically gives the idea of the molecular mass of the compound by molecular ion peak. This molecular ion peak (M+) comes at the extreme right of the mass spectra. There is another important peak known as base ion peak which […]
PROCHIRALITY
PROCHIRALITY Prochiral molecules are generally represented as Pro-R or Pro-S, and these are the precursors of chiral molecules which can be converted into chiral molecule from Prochiral in a single step. Prochirality can be observed in organic compounds in two ways, one way is the conversion of sp2 carbon into a chiral sp3 carbon via […]
Combinatorial Chemistry
Combinatorial Chemistry Combinatorial Chemistry is a new method developed to reduce the time and cost of producing effective, marketable and competitive new drugs. Combinatorial Chemistry is used to create large numbers of molecules that can be detected efficiently. This technique is useful in many areas such as Pharmaceutical chemistry, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. Combinatorial chemistry is […]
Acid Strength
Acid Strength Acid strength depends on atom’s capacity to accommodate the electron pair left behind by the departing hydrogen ion. There are basically two factors which affect the atom’s ability of accommodation of electron pair that is electronegativity and size. If we move within a row (from left to right) of periodic table acidity increases […]