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  2. Planar chirality - Wikipedia

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    A planar chiral derivative of ferrocene, used for kinetic resolution of some racemic secondary alcohols [1]. This term is used in chemistry contexts, [2] e.g., for a chiral molecule lacking an asymmetric carbon atom, but possessing two non-coplanar rings that are each dissymmetric and which cannot easily rotate about the chemical bond connecting them: 2,2'-dimethylbiphenyl is perhaps the ...

  3. Femtochemistry - Wikipedia

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    Femtochemistry is the area of physical chemistry that studies chemical reactions on extremely short timescales (approximately 10 −15 seconds or one femtosecond, hence the name) in order to study the very act of atoms within molecules (reactants) rearranging themselves to form new molecules (products).

  4. Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules - Wikipedia

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    For example, 3-methyl-1-pentene with a rectus assignment is formatted as (R)-3-methyl-1-pentene. [12] An example of a (s) descriptor: (1R,2s,3S)-1,2,3-trichlorocyclopentane. A practical method of determining whether an enantiomer is R or S is by using the right-hand rule: one wraps the molecule with the fingers in the direction 1 → 2 → 3.

  5. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...

  6. Sandwich compound - Wikipedia

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    Examples of the double sandwich include V 2 2, [20] Ni 2 2 [21] and Cr 2 (pentalene) 2. Depicted at right is an example of a multimetallic sandwich compound, which has four palladium atoms joined in a chain sandwiched between two perylene units. [22] The counterions are bulky tetraarylborates.

  7. Frustrated Lewis pair - Wikipedia

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    pcy 3 + b(c 6 f 5) 3 + c 2 h 4 → cy 3 p + ch 2 ch 2 b − (c 6 f 5) 3 For acid-base pairs to behave both nucleophilically and electrophilically at the same time offers a method for the ring-opening of cyclic ethers such as THF, 2,5-dihydrofuran, coumaran, and dioxane.

  8. Chemical compound - Wikipedia

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    [16] [17] [18] A molecule may be homonuclear, that is, it consists of atoms of one chemical element, as with two atoms in the oxygen molecule (O 2); or it may be heteronuclear, a chemical compound composed of more than one element, as with water (two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom; H 2 O). A molecule is the smallest unit of a substance that ...

  9. Seesaw molecular geometry - Wikipedia

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    Disphenoidal or seesaw (also known as sawhorse [1]) is a type of molecular geometry where there are four bonds to a central atom with overall C 2v molecular symmetry.The name "seesaw" comes from the observation that it looks like a playground seesaw.