User:Benjah-bmm27/degree
Appearance
Bristol
[edit]Prerequisite knowledge
[edit]- Valence, and the concept of oxidation states that superceded it
- Recrystallization
- Anti-bumping granules
Ways of finding information
[edit]Academic journal archives
[edit]First year
[edit]Chemistry
[edit]see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1 for Level 1 (first year) chemistry content, 2007-8
Physics
[edit]Second year
[edit]see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2 for Level 2 (second year) content, 2008-9
Third year
[edit]see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/3 for Level 3 (third year) content, 2009-10
Possibly studied but I can't remember
[edit]Not studied yet
[edit]Fashionable 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
[edit]Physical organic chemistry
[edit]Various pericyclic reactions
[edit]Various 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
[edit]Olefinations
[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
[edit]Miscellaneous
[edit]- Steglich esterification
- Zinc-copper couple
- Norrish reactions
- Grieco elimination
- Meerwein arylation
- Hydrazone iodination
- Thiol-yne reaction
- Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
Organometallic chemistry
[edit]Inorganic chemistry
[edit]Crystallography
[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
[edit]Cambridge NatSci first year
[edit]Chemistry
[edit]Physics
[edit]Maths
[edit]Vectors
[edit]Complex numbers
[edit]- Complex numbers
- Real and imaginary parts
- Complex algebra
- Trigonometry and complex numbers
- de Moivre's theorem
- Simple harmonic motion
Calculus
[edit]Power series
[edit]Hyperbolic functions
[edit]Calculus
[edit]Differentiation
[edit]Integration
[edit]Ordinary differential equations
[edit]Partial differentiation
[edit]Statistics
[edit]Materials
[edit]Cells
[edit]Metabolism
[edit]Other
[edit]Purpose of this page
[edit]I 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
[edit]see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/why
Just for fun: things that are really complicated
[edit]Physics
[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