Answers edited by Truong-Son N.

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• What is a retro Diels Alder reaction?
  
• What can I do to be able to spot synthesis intermediates and figure out steps more easily?
  
• How do I show that for acetic acid and sodium ethanoate, #K_w = K_a K_b# if I don't know the #K_a#?
  
• What ring size is stable? How can I tell if it should be planar?
  
• For an isolated, insulated system for which a gas is allowed to expand, why is the change in entropy for the system nonnegative?
  
• What is the oxidizing agent here?
  
• What is diction and syntax?
  
• What are some examples of novels with 2nd person narrative?
  
• Why might a #"KBr"# pellet be used in IR spectroscopy?
  
• Consider Diels-Alder reaction between two molecules of methylvinylketone.What product will be formed?
  
• How do you name #"H"_3"C"("CH"_2)"OCH"_3#?
  
• How to find the asymptotes of #y =(1-x^2)/( x-1)# ?
  
• In a diels-Alder reaction with cyclopentadiene and maleic anhydride, what side reactions can occur?
  
• Why can a meso compound have an enantiomer?
  
• How do you use symmetry-adapted linear combinations to explain water's molecular bonding?
  
• If a solvent contains a few impurities, how does its boiling point compare to the pure solvent?
  
• Why does indole undergo Diels Alder reaction?
  
• How would you define the concept of equilibrium in terms of free energy and entropy?
  
• Why is that, in terms of electronegativity, a #C-O# bond in #CO_2# is more polar than the #F-F# bond in #F_2#?
  
• What does the hemoglobin in a healthy adult, not possessing the sickle cell trait, consist of?
  
• What is the synthetic value of Diels-Alder reaction?
  
• What are the requirements of the Diels-Alder reaction?
  
• What does #m_l# represent and why does it correspond to each of the orbitals for a given subshell?
  
• What is raman spectroscopy?
  
• If sucrose gets hydrolyzed by water to yield two equivalents of #"C"_6"H"_12"O"_6#, what is the rate law? How should you describe the molecularity, and why is the concentration of sucrose not needed to describe the rate (provided there is excess water)?
  
• How do I correspond the structure of #"SO"_2# to a molecular orbital diagram?
  
• Is delta G zero at boiling point?
  
• How is #"propionic acid"#, #"H"_3"CCH"_2"CO"_2"H"#, synthesized?
  
• Starting from 1,1-dichloropropane, it reacts with 2 #"HCN"#, and the product is then reacted with #"HCl"# in #"H"_2"O"# and heated to yield ethylmalonic acid. Which of these routes is more likely to proceed from heating?
  
• What is a subject-verb disagreement?
  
• How do you write the electron configuration for #"H"#, #"H"_2#, #"H"_2^-#, and #"H"_2^(2-)# and calculate their bond order?
  
• Does the angular momentum quantum number #l# designate the shape of the orbital?
  
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