Physical organic chemistry

Physical organic chemistry

Physical organic chemistry is the study of the interrelationships between structure and reactivity in organic molecules. It a part of organic chemistry by using tools of physical chemistry such as chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, thermochemistry, and quantum chemistry.

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Physical organic chemistry

carbonium ion

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The term should be used with great care since several incompatible meanings are currently in use. It is not acceptable as the root for systematic nomenclature for carbocations. (1) In most of the ...

catalysis

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The action of a catalyst.

catalyst

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

A substance that participates in a particular chemical reaction and thereby increases its rate but without a net change in the amount of that substance in the system. At the molecular level, the ...

catalytic coefficient

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

If the rate of reaction (v) is expressible in the form v = (k 0 + Σk i (C i ) n i ) (A) α (B) β ... where A, B, ... are reactants and Ci represents one of a set of catalysts, then the ...

chain reaction

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

A reaction in which one or more reactive reaction intermediates (frequently radicals) are continuously regenerated, usually through a repetitive cycle of elementary steps (the "propagation step"). ...

chain transfer

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The abstraction, by the radical end of a growing chain-polymer, of an atom from another molecule. The growth of the polymer chain is thereby terminated but a new radical, capable of chain propagation ...