Bristol
editPrerequisite knowledge
edit- Valence, and the concept of oxidation states that superceded it
- Recrystallization
- Anti-bumping granules
Ways of finding information
editAcademic journal archives
editFirst year
editChemistry
editsee User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1 for Level 1 (first year) chemistry content, 2007-8
Physics
editSecond year
editsee User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2 for Level 2 (second year) content, 2008-9
Third year
editsee User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/3 for Level 3 (third year) content, 2009-10
Possibly studied but I can't remember
editNot studied yet
editFashionable topics
edit- Click chemistry
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Cheminformatics
- Drug development: drug discovery, drug discovery hit to lead, lead compound, high-throughput screening, compound management, drug design, quantitative structure-activity relationship, virtual screening, druglikeness
- Green chemistry
- Microwave chemistry
- Sonochemistry
- Solid-phase synthesis
- Synthetic photochemistry
Physical chemistry
edit- Microscopic reversibility
- Hammett principle / Hammett equation
- Hammett acidity function
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, Chemical clock, Iodine clock reaction, Bray-Liebhafsky reaction, Old Nassau reaction
- Bra-ket notation:
Theoretical chemistry
edit- Proper valence bond theory
- Electronic correlation
- Hartree–Fock
- Post-Hartree–Fock
- Configuration interaction
- Coupled cluster
- Møller–Plesset perturbation theory
Organic chemistry
editPhysical organic chemistry
editVarious pericyclic reactions
editVarious rearrangements
edit- 1,2-Wittig rearrangement
- Gabriel-Colman rearrangement
- Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement
- Chan rearrangement, using N,O-dimethylhydroxylamine
- Stieglitz rearrangement
- Meyer–Schuster rearrangement
- Divinylcyclopropane-cycloheptadiene rearrangement
Various cyclizations
editOlefinations
edit- Barton-Kellogg reaction - like a thio Wittig rxn
- Julia olefination - Wittig with phenylsulfonyl carbanion as nucleophile
- Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction - Wittig with phosphonate carbanion as nucleophile
- Peterson olefination - Wittig with α-silyl carbanion as nucleophile
- Tebbe olefination - Wittig with Cp2Ti=CH2 Schrock carbene as nucleophile
- Takai olefination
- Kauffmann olefination
Tosylhydrazones
edit- N-tosylhydrazone-based reactions:
- the Bamford–Stevens reaction: a tosylhydrazone + a strong base → an alkene
- the Shapiro reaction:
- a tosylhydrazone + an organolithium base → a vinyllithium
- the vinyllithium + water → an alkene
- the vinyllithium + an electrophile, E → an E-substituted alkene
- an N-tosylhydrazone did appear in a question on the Eschenmoser fragmentation from the first Level 3 VKA pre-workshop
Synthesis
editMiscellaneous
edit- Steglich esterification
- Zinc-copper couple
- Norrish reactions
- Grieco elimination
- Meerwein arylation
- Hydrazone iodination
- Thiol-yne reaction
- Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
Organometallic chemistry
editInorganic chemistry
editCrystallography
edit- Ewald's sphere
- Reciprocal lattice
- R-factor (crystallography)
- Difference density map
- Resolution (electron density)
- Crystallographic point group (Point groups in three dimensions), Schoenflies notation and Hermann–Mauguin notation
- Ewald summation?
- Powder diffraction
- Neutron diffraction
- X-ray scattering techniques
- International Centre for Diffraction Data
- Mineralogy
- Metallurgy
- Wigner–Seitz cell
- Brillouin zone
- Laue equations
- Molecular replacement
- Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
- Neutron scattering
- Order (crystal lattice)
- Sphere packing
- Time resolved crystallography
- Wyckoff positions
Analytical chemistry
editCambridge NatSci first year
editChemistry
editPhysics
editMaths
editVectors
editComplex numbers
edit- Complex numbers
- Real and imaginary parts
- Complex algebra
- Trigonometry and complex numbers
- de Moivre's theorem
- Simple harmonic motion
Calculus
editPower series
editHyperbolic functions
editCalculus
editDifferentiation
editIntegration
editOrdinary differential equations
editPartial differentiation
editStatistics
editMaterials
editCells
editMetabolism
editOther
editPurpose of this page
editI created this user page to help me identify articles I can contribute to, from the perspective of an undergraduate learning these topics for the first time.
Reasons for studying chemistry
editsee User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/why
Just for fun: things that are really complicated
editPhysics
edit- Navier–Stokes equations
- Einstein field equations
- Dark energy, Dark matter
- Standard Model (mathematical formulation), Lagrangian of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, after electroweak symmetry breaking, with no explicit Higgs boson
- Yang–Mills theory (not related to me)
- String theory
- M-theory
- Metric expansion of space