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Enzymes are known as biological catalyst and work by lowering the activation energy of a reaction. They do this by providing an alternative pathway which speeds up the reaction without the catalyst undergoin...

The relative formula mass of a compound is simple to calculate once you know how. It is very similar to the atomic mass of an element, except instead of only being the mass of that one element, it is the mas...

Both Sn1 and Sn2 reactions are nucleophilic substitution reactions. Sn1 reactions proceed via 2 steps. An example of this is the substitution of a halogen group such as bromine with an OH- group forming an a...

Gibbs free energy allows you to link together the two factors entropy and enthalpy, these factors together determine if a chemical reaction is spontaneous or not. For a reaction to be spontaneous then the ch...

If a chiral molecules undergoes nucleophilic substitution what happens to its stereochemistry? S N 1: These reactions occur with the production of a cationic intermediate. These contain an sp 2 hybrdised car...