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  1. ok, another unrelated question but didn't want to start up another thread in fear of spam.

     

    It's about hybridisation:

     

    Take for example CH3+, carbon here would be sp2 hybridized correct? Since it appears that it would sit in a planar, and thus has an empty p orbital. OH-'s Oxygen would be sp3 hybridized since it would have 3 lone pairs and one sigma bond, and it would resemble a tetrahedral shape.

     

    So when CH3(+) + OH(-) -> CH4O, you end up with carbon's empty p orbital overlapping Oxygen's sp3 orbital and a sigma bond is formed. How does this work? The net result is that both Carbon and Oxygen becomes sp3 hybridized.

  2. alright thx alot, its clear to me now.

     

    But now i've a technicality question

     

    Say you add glucose(s) into water, and glucose molecules dissociate, then does that mean a reaction has occured.

     

    Or is a reaction only when you add an acid/base to a functional group? would you write it as:

     

    R-COOH(s) + NaOH (aq) -> R-COO(-)NA(+)(aq) + H2O(l)

  3. I read that functional groups that can be converted into charged species are able to overcoe the 5-carbon barrier to solubility in water. Why is it that a charged species is able to become soluble?

     

    Also if the functional group is acidic (like COOH) do I add a base to give it a charge?

     

    and the FG is basic (like NH2), do i then add a acid? [EDITED, lol original was quite idiotic]

     

    What is relationship between being resonance stabilized and being more water soluble?

     

    And does dissolving something mean that bonds are broken between molecules or within molecules

  4. in theory' date=' you could use viral vectors. a hiv based vector, for example, could inject stuff into all cd4+ cells, what with hiv being desighned specifically to infect cd4+ cells.

     

    So, if the target cells exhibit some unique cell membrane structure that a virus targets, then they can be targeted by viral-vector delivered chemicals.

     

    but in practice its a lot trickier than that, apparently.[/quote']

     

    One example of its trickiness is a French trial treatment of SCID with viral vectors, one of the children developed a form of leukemia that has never been seen before

  5. Can someone give me a brief explanation of what a wave function Ψ is, and

     

    how you can derive from Ψ n, l, ml and how it can be graphed, along with

     

    \its importance with respect to Schrodinger's model of the atom?

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