Chemistry Notes

I shall be posting here resources which will help you to understand better and in depth the concepts we study in our course.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Carboxylic acids

Very comprehensive site about carboxylic acids:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/basicorg/acidbase/acids.html

Monday, September 26, 2005

Chemical equilibria

How did Napoleon Bonaparte help discover reversible reactions? Visit this excellent site!

http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/chemeq/index.html

You can use also these sites for better understanding of chemical equilibria:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/equilibmenu.html#top

http://www.towson.edu/~ladon/chemeq.html

Demonstration:

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/animations/chang_7e_esp/kim2s2_5.swf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5qbQ3XcbyM&feature=related


Effect of temperature on equilibrium:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlGrBcgANSY&feature=related

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Naming organic compounds

If you want some additional practice in naming organic compounds, visit these sites:

http://www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/page04/page04.htm

http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/nomen1.htm

Monday, September 19, 2005

Nobel prizes in Chemistry

You can read here about recent Nobel prize winners in Chemistry on this site:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

kinetics

These site are helpful with understanding the factors influencing the rate of reaction:

http://www.docbrown.info/page03/3_31rates.htm


http://www.leekhigh.staffs.sch.uk/science/chemistry/chim/RRfolder/RRE.htm

A comprehensive site about kinetics:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/basicratesmenu.html#top

Monday, September 12, 2005

Welcome

Welcome to the Chemistry Blog! I hope this will become a way of enriching our communication.