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What are the redox reactions involving carbonyls?

Carbonyls are aldehydes and ketones, both can be a product of an alcohol's oxidation reaction. A common reagent for that is potassium dichromate and sulphuric acid (the dichromate ion is reduced to a Cr

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Explain why a rise in investment should help to increase the rate of growth of the UK economy

Investment is part of Aggregate Demand (AD). If there is an increase in investment then there will be a rise in the demand for capital goods and this means that the firms supplying the goods will have an ...

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An electron is traveling at a velocity of 500m/s perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field. A force of magnitude 4.32 x10^(-16) N is acting on the electron, what is the magnetic flux density of the field?

F=BQv so B=F/Qv (Q is the charge of an electron, 1.6 x10^-19C) so B=4.32 x10^-16 / (1.6 x10^-19 x 500) = 5.4 T

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What product would you expect to obtain when reacting ethanal (or acetaldehyde) with potassium cyanide (KCN) in dilute acid? Draw a curly arrow mechanism for this transformation, and determine whether you obtain one enantiomer or a racemic mixture.

The product obtained is a cyanohydrin, with the formula CH3CH(OH)(CN) where the cyanide anion has acted as a nucleophile towards the aldehyde. The mechanism would first show the lone pair on the carbonyl ...

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Explanation of the lac operon, based on 9700/41/M/J/18 Question 3

It is made up of 3 genes: lacZ, lacY and lacA which encode for B-galactosidase (LacZ), lactose permease (LacY), and another enzyme (not studied at A level) respectively.The functions of LacZ (the enzyme) ...

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