Gen Chem/Spectra
Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry
PChem/Analytical
Inorganic/Faculty
100

The name of the following compound: PF5

What is Phosphorus Pentafluoride?

100

A chiral mixture in solution that exhibits a specific rotation of 0

What is a racemic mixture?

100

This amino acid has restricted motion around its phi bond

What is Proline?

100

This orbital begins to fill after the 6s orbital

What is the 4f orbital?

100

The oxidation number of iron in the complex [Fe(CN)6]-3

What is +3

200

An alcohol group would appear at this wavenumber on an IR spectrum

~3600 cm-1

200

These reagents are needed for the anti-Markovnikov addition of bromine to an alkene

What are HBR, ROOR (peroxide), and heat/light

200

This is the most commonly formed conformation of DNA-DNA double helices

What is B DNA?

200

The equation “ΔG = ΔH - TΔS” only applies to this kind of process

What is isothermal?

200

Dr. Kazmier's favorite holiday is this

What is Halloween?

300

The approximate ppm shift of a methoxy group for 1H NMR

What is 4?

300

DIBALH will reduce an acid chloride to this kind of compound

What is an acid chloride?

300

This Michaelis-Menten parameter predicts the amount of ligand bound to an enzyme at a specific substrate concentration

What is the KM of the Michaelis constant?

300

Detergents like SDS form these spherical structures when in hydrophilic solutions

What are micelles?

300

Peaks present in IR and Raman spectroscopy are caused by these

What are active vibrational nodes?

400

This gas law describes the inverse relationship between pressure and volume, assuming constant temperature.

What is Boyle's Law?

400

This German chemist is credited with the discovery of the structure of benzene

Who is August Kekulé?

400

The first name of one of the famous kinetics duo Michaelis and Menten

Who was Leonor? or Who was Maud?

400

The reason we cannot analytically solve the Schrödinger equation for the helium atom    

The Three-Body Problem

400

This faculty member is Judy Garland's third cousin

Who is Dr. Meyet

500

In the equation E=h𝜈, h stands for this constant

What is Planck's Constant? (6.262*10-34 J*s)

500

This reaction uses an unsaturated halide and a palladium catalyst in base to turn a terminal alkene into an internal alkene through the addition of the R group of the halide

What is the Heck Reaction?

500

The catalytic triad of a Serine Protease

What is His-Asp-Ser? (Histadine-Aspartate-Serine)

500

This can be determined using the Debye-Hückel equation

What is the activity of a solution?

500

If the field splitting energy of a complex is sufficiently small, its valence electrons may end up in this state

What is high spin state?

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