important reactions

i) Required for solubilization of chemicals and several biochemical reactions like hydrolytic digestion of polymeric nutrients, photosynthesis, etc. ii) Important for the working of macromolecules, as a good ionizer, transport of materials, etc. iii) Acts as a habitat for hydrop..

Importance of Steoreochemistry - Stereochemistry, an important aspect of carbon compounds, is a feature that is widely prevalent in nature. The human body is structurally chiral with the heart lying to the left and the liver to the right. Many climbing plants show chirality in t..

Terylene or Dacron is manufactured from ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. The reaction is carried out at 420 - 460 K in the presence of catalyst zinc acetate and antimony trioxid..

(i) Methanoic acid [Formic acid HCOOH] - It occurs in a variety of biting and stingins plants and insects. It is manufactured by the reaction of carbomonoxide with sodium hydroxide under pressure at 473 K. Sodium methanoate is obtained which is acidified and distilled to give the aci..

Laws of Chemical Combination - The study of reactions is one of the important areas of Chemistry. There are many aspects of a reaction like the rate of reaction, energy absorbed or evolved, mechanism of a reaction that can be evaluated only with wei..

Nuclear Fission - Two consequences of nuclear reactions are the phenomena of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Both are important sources of nuclear energy, which may be used for peaceful or destructive purposes. When a nucleus is bombarded with some sub-atomic particles such ..

Aryl diazonium salts constitute intermediates that can be used to synthesis many classes of organic compounds especially aryl halides in the pure state. For e.g., 1,2,3 - Tri bromobenzene is not formed in the pure state by direct bromination of benzene. But it is obtained by a sequence of reac..

Collision Theory - From Arrhenius equation, it is seen that the rate constant k of a reaction increases with temperature and therefore, the rate of reaction also increases. Why does k depend on temperature? This can be explained, to a certain extent, by collision theory. Accordi..

Balancing Oxidation-Reduction Reactions - There are two very important methods for balancing oxidation-reduction reactions. These are: Oxidation number method Ion-electron meth..

We observe various chemical processes in our daily life. It is a common observation that the rates of these chemical reactions vary and depend on certain factors. The knowledge of the rate of a reaction is of importance in industries to ensure optimum productivit..