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Physical organic chemistry
Physical organic chemistry is the study of the interrelationships between structure and reactivity in organic molecules. It a part of organic chemistry by using tools of physical chemistry such as chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, thermochemistry, and quantum chemistry.
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Physical organic chemistry
+ educt
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
Term used mainly in the German literature for starting material (reactant). It should be avoided in English, because there it means "something that comes out" and not "something that goes in". The ...
+ protolysis
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
This term has been used synonymously with proton (hydron)-transfer reaction. Because of its misleading similarity to hydrolysis, photolysis, etc., its use is discouraged.
+ electron-donor-acceptor complex
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
A term sometimes employed instead of charge-transfer complex or Lewis adduct.
+ pseudomolecular rearrangement
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
The use of this awkwardly formed term is discouraged. It is synonymous with "intermolecular rearrangement".
Autoprotolysis constant
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
The product of the activities (or, more approximately, concentrations) of the species produced as the result of autoprotolysis. For solvents in which no other ionisation processes are significant the ...
Baldwin's rules
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
A set of empirical rules for certain formations of 3- to 7-membered rings. The predicted pathways are those in which the length and nature of the linking chain enables the terminal atoms to achieve ...
Autoprotolysis
Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry
A proton (hydron) transfer reaction between two identical molecules (usually a solvent), one acting as a Brønsted acid and the other as a Brønsted base. For example: 2 H 2 O → H 3 O + + OH ...
