General Chemistry
Organic
Analytical/Environmental
Inorganic/Physical/quantum
Hey?!That's not an Element!
100

Name four pieces of PPE

Long pants, closed toed shoes, safety goggles, hairtie, lab coat

100

What conditions allow an E2 Reaction to occur?

Basic

100

What is the pH of the end point of a strong acid-base titration?

7

100

Which french physicist suggested wave particle duality in 1924

Louis de Broglie

100

Rubidium, Rockium, Radium

Rockium

200

What is the electromagnetic wave in the electromagnetic spectrum that has the longest wavelength / lowest frequency?

Radiowave

200

What does NMR stand for?



Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

200

A material that absorbs all light  

blackbody

200

How do you calculate the bond order in Molecular Orbital theory?


(# of bonding electrons - # of antibonding electrons) / 2

200

 Plutonium, Chocolatinium, Uranium

Chocolatinuim

300

what is the name for NH4H2PO4

ammonium dihydrogen phosphate

300

What does SOMO stand for?

Singly Occupied Molecular Orbital

300

Name 3 instruments that use a mass spectrometer as a detector

(LC-MS, ICP-MS, GC-MS)

300

There are two types of electrochemical cells. _____ produces DC current from a spontaneous redox reaction. _______ requires an external source of energy to drive a nonspontaneous reaction. 

Galvanic and electrolytic (respectively)

300

Americium, Europium, Canadium

Canadium

400

What is the ideal gas law? State the equation and what each symbol stands for.

pV=nRT; pressure, volume, number of moles, the gas constant, temperature

400

K. Barry Sharpless won 2 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, what were they for?

1. Chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions. 

2. Development of click and bioorthogonal chemistry. 

400

Not a quantized energy level but an energy level where an electron can still exist?

virtual state

400

The Zeeman effect results in the splitting of energy levels due to the presence of what?

A magnetic field

400

Gold, silver, bronze

Bronze

500

Name the isotope of hydrogen that is radioactive.

Tritium (3H)

500

What makes the oxyphosphonium intermediate extremely reactive to substitution in the Mitsunobu reaction? 

Thermodynamic drive for the formation of a stable phosphoryl P=O bond

500

Increased optical throughput   

Janquinot advantage

500

In Schrodinger’s equation the Hamiltonian operator acts on the wavefunction (eigenvector). Energy is the _____ of this equation.

eigenvalue

500

Caesarium, Copernicium, Caesium

Caesarium