Mad Scientists Through History
This German chemist has the burner you will find on any lab bench named after him.
Who is Robert Bunsen?
This element is the most electronegative with a value of 4.
What is fluorine?
This type of reaction releases heat to its surroundings.
What is an exothermic reaction?
This molecule is often called the “energy currency” of the cell.
This professor is the chemistry department unit head.
Who is Dr. Pentecost?
He invented dynamite, made a fortune from it, then created a peace prize to redeem his name.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
This group of elements are known for their low reactivity due to their full valence shell.
What are the noble gases?
This substitution reaction involves the formation of a carbocation intermediate.
What is an SN1 reaction?
This metabolic pathway involves the conversion of glucose into pyruvate.
What is glycolysis?
This professor is known for teaching the major’s organic chemistry lecture.
Who is Dr. Hart?
As a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer, her work was crucial to the discovery of DNA’s structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
When moving across a period, atoms decrease in size due to the increase of this.
What is effective nuclear charge?
This reaction converts an alcohol into a ketone.
What is an oxidation reaction?
This is used to describe the overall structure of a single polypeptide chain formed by the folding of alpha helices and beta sheets.
What is tertiary structure?
These department coordinators can be found in the chemistry office (giving out snacks!).
Who are Meghan and Jennifer?
Pioneering radioactivity research, her lab notebooks are still found to be radioactive.
Who is Marie Curie?
This largest jump in this property occurs when trying to remove an electron that would break an atom’s stable octet.
What is ionization energy?
This reaction forms an ester and water when an alcohol reacts with a carboxylic acid.
What is esterification?
This is the overall charge of proline at a pH of 1.
What is +1?
As a GVSU alum, this professor earned his Ph.D. from UCLA and returned to GVSU to teach general chemistry.
Who is Dr. Hoekstra?
He saw the arrangement of elements in a dream, predicted missing ones, and left spaces on his chart for discoveries yet to come.
Who is Dmitri Medeleev?
Oxygen has a slightly larger atomic radius than nitrogen, breaking the trend of atomic radii due to this.
What is electron-electron repulsion?
This is the final product when ethanol is reacted with concentrated sulfuric acid and heated.
What is ethene (ethylene)?
In competitive inhibition, a molecule binds to this part of an enzyme.
What is the active site?
Out of the entire department, this professor has been at GVSU the longest.
Who is Dr. Bender?