General Chemistry
What type of bond involves the sharing of electrons?
Covalent bond
What is the IUPAC name of acetone?
Propanone
Which molecule is known as the energy currency of the cell?
ATP
What is the coordination number of a metal in an octahedral complex?
6
What gas law describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas at constant temperature?
Boyle's Law
What is the term for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed?
Catalyst
What is the most stable conformation of cyclohexane
Chair conformation
Which amino acid can form disulfide bonds in proteins?
Cysteine
What type of ligand donates two pairs of electrons to a metal center?
Bidentate ligand
The change in this thermodynamic quantity is equal to the heat absorbed or released during a reaction at constant pressure.
Enthalpy
What is the pH of a 0.001 M HCl solution?
3
Which reagent is used to oxidize primary alcohols to aldehydes selectively?
PCC (Pyridinium chlorochromate)
Which metabolic pathway is responsible for breaking down fatty acids for energy?
Beta-oxidation
What type of magnetism is exhibited by materials that are attracted to a magnetic field and tend to align with it?
Paramagnetism
This technique is commonly used to separate components of a mixture based on their affinity for a stationary phase and a mobile phase.
Chromatography
What is Planck's Constant to 4 sig figs? (Include units)
6.626 x 10^-34 J•S
Which reagent is commonly used for the selective reduction of alkynes to cis-alkenes?
Lindlar's catalyst
What type of enzyme catalyzes the conversion of ATP to cyclic AMP?
Adenylate cyclase
In molecular orbital theory, what type of molecular orbital is formed from the constructive interference of atomic orbitals?
Bonding molecular orbital
This molecule is a precursor for the synthesis of steroid hormones, and its structure contains four fused rings, making it a member of the terpenoid family.
Cholesterol
What is the principle stating that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of quantum numbers?
Pauli exclusion principle
What is the stereochemical requirement for an E2 elimination reaction?
Anti-periplanar geometry
Which enzyme catalyzes the rate-limiting step of glycolysis?
Phosphofructokinase-1
What is the term for the splitting of d-orbitals in a ligand field?
Crystal Field Theory
This reaction, a key step in organic synthesis, involves the condensation of two molecules with the elimination of water, forming a carbon-carbon bond between a carbonyl compound and an enolate ion, and is often used to synthesize β-hydroxy ketones or aldehydes.
Aldol condensation