Organic Chemistry

I am 16 years old and i want to start doing chemistry with the help of my dad and i dont have tons of money what are some cheap very useful equipment i need to start and what should i start studying first.

Which resin is better to make metal paint petroleum resin C9 or gum rosin and what its most suitable solvent each?

I just watched this video: Of some dude/gal making glycerine seemingly without a base/acid. It doesn't seem to me that he knows what he is doing, but maybe he does, so I wanted to ask any organic chemists, if you think he managed to separate the triglycerides with this process?

Hi there, hope this is the right thread to post. I’ve started to craft with an ammonium chloride, water and thicken up solution. I apply it to wood and use a heat gun to burn my designs. I was wondering if putting the wood in the oven at 350 degrees would have the same effect and be safe? What about using a heat press would that be safe? thanks for your help :)

What'd be the cheaper substitute and/or alternative to raw linseed oil functioning as a resin solvent?

How can we make metal oil paint by the use of unsaturated polyester resin and its suitable solvent, plus some pigments only if really required?

As you see in the first question -NO2 on ortho causes inductive effect and creates a hydrogen bonding with H in COOH and is considered to be stronger acid than others. In the second question, the -NO2 again shows I- and H bonding but is less acidic. I don't get how the latter one isnt the strongest.

Does clay remain uniform even when you pound it, shape it or mold it with a "Pot Wheel? " I have looked online for information and "did find" some resourceful information, but "visually" such as a "lattice" or other uniform topologies I am "very" confused. Here is what I mean: Here is an image: Wikimedia-Commons.png (2000×736) (d1whtlypfis84e.cloudfront.net) The reason i'm confused is in due part of the spacing in-between the particles themselves" "What Governs This?" I guess im asking about electron configuration, or electro static attractions from particle to particle, " IE" Ionic Solids, if this helps.. Here is an image: …

Can i add NaCN to ClCH2CH2CH2Cl and only one Cl be replaced with CN? Is this based on the moles of NaCN I add?

Hi All, really excited to have made an account to join the community! I am wondering if I can get some help in trying to solve the problem I’m facing. I am using an aqueous calcium bicarbonate solution to try and remove aluminum sulfate from my heptane layer....at least that’s what I think I’m trying to do. I must apologize as I’m still a student. In any case, after my two layers have separated, There is a impurity that likes to adhere to the inside of the glass of the separatory funnel (I think Calcium Sulfate) and lives in both the water and heptane layer so I’m trying to figure out how to effectively remove it because I can’t seem to remove all of it fro…

Hi, I need help with my task. Its a sythesis of the compound 1 into compound 2 with 3 stages. I only know that i have to elliminate Br from the compound 1 but i dont know how. And the other stages I dont know what to do.

Hello Everyone, I need some help in order to understand the potential side effects of drinking Chlorine dioxide (ClO2). It is also called MMS on the web. He believes it cures Covid and other diseases like cancer, etc. Can anyone on the forum provide me some guidance as to what may actually happen if you drink this compound on a regular basis. Thank you.

If I have 3o amine on a side chain, and I want to make it 2o amine by getting rid of -CH3, can I use BrCN and KOH ? Is this correct?

Hi all, this probably wont be your average post. But i am severely struggling to get my head around this issue that has arised in my home. My plumber decided to seal my walls for my wet room renovation with a Bitumen liquid to keep damp away from the external brick wall coming in. The funny thing is, i never suffered from damp. He used a product designed for roofing inside my home. Safely to say, he has now left and no longer doing anymore work in my home. Consequently the product he has used contains Bitumen and is white spirit based. The ingredients are BITUMEN (WHEN IN SOLVENT SOLUTION) (95% carbon and hydrogen (± 87% carbon and ± 8% hydrogen) 50-70% EINECS…

What will happen if I evaporate flouriantimonic acid and then walk trough it, will I melt, burn,... I’m just curious Thank you

Why does CH3CO2H have a greater nucleophilicity than CH3OH?

Can someone help me synthesize BrCH2CH2Cl from CH2CH2? Is this way correct? CH2CH2 + HOCl—> OHCH2CH2Cl + PBr3–> BrCH2CH2Cl

Hi everyone.. I need help to produce CH3O-benzene-CH2COCl (para thesis) starting from benzene. I tried to start with CH2COCl so i will have para thesis but when I react the molecule ( OH-benzene-CH2COCl) with NaOH/CH3Br in order to have the ether, CH2COCl will react with NaOH too... Is there any other way to do this?

Hey everyone... I am desperate! Can someone help me with the synthesis of COOHCH2NHCH3 from CH2CH2?

I'm doing an experiment where I'm testing different cleansers at home to see which of them breaks down a tannin stain the best. One of them is Windex, and the main ingredient is 2-hexoxyethanol. I'm not sure if it's polar or non polar?

Likely a stupid question but I'm a touch of a hypochondriac so these sorts of things occur to me. Could dimethylmercury be produced at home by accident? Like could it inadvertently be created? I live in a house built in the 40's and the fixtures are as old, including the bathroom mirror. Apparently old mirrors could have mercury amalgam in them, could cleaning them with the wrong thing produce a reaction that would create that dimethylmercury? I know something about halides is involved in making dimethylmercury and one of the cleaners I use to clean my mirror has magnesium chloride in it, which is a halide right? If there were mercury in the mirror could it reac…

Hi there im really struggling to get my head around the difference between electrophilic addiction and free radical addition. I know the steps on these two different reactions but I just don’t get how they can differ from each other. One of the reactants, for an electrophilic addition can be simple like hydrogen bromide, the bond breaks from the double,triple bond acting as a Bronsted lowery base and the bromide is left with an unpaired electron, which I believe should be known as a free radical, so then it will form a bond with one of the carbocations and produce a halogenoalkane, for example. I really just can’t distinguish the the two of them and I’d rea…

Hi. Nervous mom again here....was reading about the migration of lead from crystal glasses to juice or wine during a meal. It is estimated that no more than 2 mg per litre of lead is transferred to the glass when drinking out of a crystal vessel during a meal. If this is the case, say a toddler had 2-3 sips out of a crystal glass (thanks to my mother!), how much would she actually have consumed when compared to say, the insanely strict California Prop 65 daily limit for children of 0.5 ug/day?

Will the salt deposited on the surface of a piece of plastic cause dryness and cracks in the plastic? salt corrodes metals but does it dry out plastics?

I was wondering why we need substances which contain acid in acidity. Can someone help me out?