I thought studying this would be boring but here I am at midnight laughing my ass off to a trippy video and I haven't even gone off-topic 10/10 though made me understand something in 2min that other videos failed at with 20min while also being entertaining
Note that there *is* a transition state at ea2 and that the bond to OH should be "half formed" as it is with the halide at ea1... bonds don't form on flat energy profiles...
yes, this is an organic chemistry video---organic chem is usually not delved into until atleast a year of general chem has been completed. primary/secondary/tertiary carbons are introduced much sooner than SN1 reactions
Angelina Ravani The rate determining step could never be the fastest step in a reaction. That wouldn't make sense. The only way the rate determining step could be the fastest step would be if it was the only step in that reaction, because it is the step that determines the rate of the reaction. You know the saying "you're only as strong as your weakest link"? It's kind of like that - you're only as fast as your slowest step, and therefore that step will determine the rate of the entire reaction. "The Rate Determining Step is the slowest step of a chemical reaction that determines the speed (rate) of the overall reaction." - UC Davis ChemWiki
no the perpendicular constitutive angle of the optical activity deionises the alkyl groups which further on leads to the chiral structure being destroyed. Hence the enantiomers do not rotate the plane of polarisation and there is no further change in optical activity.
Random question, but isn't saying "slowest rate determining step" a tad redundant? I mean, wouldn't it be easier to just say "the slowest step" or "the rate determining step" since the rate determining step = the slowest step?
I'm not sure if adding all the sound/graphical effects helps viewers with comprehension. This video focuses a little too much on the presentation, instead of the content.
I recently started learning Chemistry (2 months ago), and while this is a very helpful video, combining the graph representation of the reaction with a 3d representation of the reaction, the pace of the video is too fast (in my opinion) and there is a considerable assumed level of knowledge (for example, it is assumed that it is known what tertiary halogenoalkanes means). That aside, it is a very good video and thank you for making it.
The video explained it at the start. Tertiary haloalkanes are those whose hydrogen atoms are replaced with alkyl groups, ie. the central carbon atom is connected to three other carbon atoms from the alkyl groups.
really good lesson. BUT what with the echos, the music and the colour moving in the background!? I do not think that is pedagogical at all; it distracts and irritates me, making it harder to keep focus and learn. Otherwise, gr8 :D
