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PhD 1984, 35 years experience as lab-based synthetic chemist for major pharma company

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Why does adding salt to boiling water cause it to flare up suddenly?
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Sugar solutions have a neutral pH in themselves, but it makes your body acidic. Why?
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What is the role of ammonium chloride in the workup of a Grignard reaction?
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Can osmium react with oxygen at room temperature?
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Does aniline react with diazonium ions at C or N?
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What is this fluorinated organic substance?
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Can aluminium form blue-colored solution in liquid ammonia?
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How can one synthesise a conjugated alkyne chain?
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Can Mg/ether reduce carbonyl groups?
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Choosing reaction stoichiometry in organic synthesis
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Can a cyclic amine form an amide?
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Hoffman broamide degradation but with alkoxide as base instead of NaOH
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What is the mechanism for the reaction of alkenes with diborane and chloramine?
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Can NaH open the epoxide ring to form alcohol? If so, how?
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Why do we have to use anhydrous AlCl3 in Gatterman-Koch Reaction?
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Does Phenylacetylene undergo side chain oxidation with hot alkaline Potassium permanganate?
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What is the major product in the reaction between 4-chloropentanal and lithium aluminium hydride?
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Why is the ortho product major in the nitration of anisole with nitric acid and acetic anhydride?
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How to make cyclohex-4-ene-1,2-diol from cyclohexa-1,4-diene?
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Why can't terminal alkynes take part in Birch reduction?
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Coupling of silyl imine and aldehyde
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Why would I not see a reaction between aluminum and tin(IV) chloride?
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Reaction of naphthalene with sodium dichromate/sulfuric acid
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Can I synthesize an Amide simply by heating an amine and a carboxylic acid (with a vacuum pump)?
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What happens when (+) 2-iodobutane is treated with NaI in acetone?
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Why benzenediazonium bromide and iodide are not important?
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Synthetic route to hydroxychloroquine
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Grignard reagent with sulfur dioxide
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Why won't this reaction work?
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Can primary amine be produced using Grignard reagent?
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