Computational analysis suggests that the anomeric effect arises from a combination of factors and is not limited to just ...

Here we consider the role of three principal physical factors—exchange, electrostatic and hyperconjugative interactions—underlying ethane's structural preference. Both hyperconjugation and exchange ...

The biggest fear students have about Organic Chemistry is that they believe it has to be memorised. They feel they must ...

It's an old organic chemistry tenet that conjugated polyenes, with their alternating double and single bonds, are more stable than their unconjugated isomers. An abundance of lab experiments and ...

From their first organic chemistry course, students learn that the more substituted an alkane, the weaker the remaining C-H bonds, and the more stable the molecule's corresponding radical. The reason ...