General Chemistry
Group 2 elements, which include magnesium and barium, are known as this.
What are the alkaline earth metals?
What are organic compounds primarily made of?
What is carbon?
This person is considered the founder of the modern environmental movement.
To date, this family has won the most Nobel Prizes, totaling 5.
Who are the Curie family?
The infamous chemist of this show took on the name Heisenberg, an ode to the theoretical physicist, Werner, who discovered the uncertainty principle.
What is Breaking Bad?
Balance this equation:
(X)N2 + 3H2 ⇌ (X)NH3
What is (1)N2 + 3H2 ⇌ (2)NH3?
Two or more compounds that have the same molecular formula but different arrangements of atoms are called this.
What are isomers?
(MW of desired product)/(MW of reagents)*100 = ?
What is atom economy or % atom economy?
There have only been two people that have the Nobel Prize in Chemistry more than once. How many times did K. Barry Sharpless and Frederick Sanger win the Nobel Prize?
What is two times?
What is 6:02 am and 6:02 pm?
The equation in the above question is the equation for this famous reaction.
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
A [4+2] cycloaddition is known as this kind of reaction.
What is the Diels-Alder?
This kind of reaction is the least atom economical kind of reaction.
What is an elimination reaction?
In 2010, these three chemists won the Nobel “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis."
Who are Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki?
Starring Brie Larson, this book turned show follows Elizabeth Zott chemist turned cooking show host.
What is Lessons in Chemistry?
Everyone's favorite principle can sometimes be thought of as a "seesaw" effect, because when disturbed by changing conditions, the position of equilibrium will shift to counteract the change and reestablish equilibrium.
What is Le Chatlier's principle?
These compounds often smell sweet, including isoamyl acetate, which has an aroma of bananas.
What are esters?
PCC, Jones reagent, and Collins reagent all share this metal.
What is chromium/chromium (VI)?
The development of these porous crystalline materials won Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
What are metal organic frameworks?
Once treated with methylene chloride, today supercritical CO2 is more commonly used in order to prepare a less anxiety-inducing version of this beverage.
What is coffee?
This metal glows a bright blue/green when lit in the flame test!
Due to this reaction esters react with water and a base to form an carboxylic acid and an alcohol.
What is saponification?
Bisphenol A, also known as BPA, is known to leach from consumer products and can act as an endocrine-disruptor, because it mimics this chemical found in the body.
What is estrogen?
The 2022 Nobel Prize award went to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morton Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless for this onomatopoeia and the related field of bioorthogonal chemistry.
What is click/click chemistry?
Organic chemistry students are no stranger to impurities in their NMR. When using a solvent of CDCl3, this compound will appear as a singlet at 1.56 ppm.
What is water?