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

annulene

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

Mancude (i.e. having formally the maximum number of noncumulative double bonds) monocyclic hydrocarbon without side chains of the general formula C n H n (n is an even number) or C n H n+1 (n is an ...

aprotic (solvent)

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

Non-protogenic (in a given situation). (With extremely strong Brønsted acids or bases, solvents that are normally aprotic may accept or lose a proton. For example, acetonitrile is in most instances ...

aquation

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The incorporation of one or more integral molecules of water into another species with or without displacement of one or more other atoms or groups. For example the incorporation of water into the ...

aromatic

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

(1) In the traditional sense, "having a chemistry typified by benzene". (2) The terms aromatic and antiaromatic have been extended to describe the stabilization or destabilization of transition ...

aromaticity

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

A cyclically conjugated molecular entity with a stability (due to delocalization) significantly greater than that of a hypothetical localized structure (e.g. Kekulé structure) is said to possess ...

association

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The assembling of separate molecular entities into any aggregate, especially of oppositely charged free ions into ion pairs or larger and not necessarily well-defined clusters of ions held together ...

asymmetric induction

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The traditional term describing the preferential formation in a chemical reaction of one enantiomer or diastereoisomer over the other as a result of the influence of a chiral feature in the ...