User:Benjah-bmm27/degree

Bristol

• Undergraduate education

Prerequisite knowledge

• Valence, and the concept of oxidation states that superceded it
• Recrystallization
• Anti-bumping granules

Ways of finding information

Academic journal archives

• SciFinder
• ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science
• JSTOR
• Google Scholar

First year

Chemistry

see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1 for Level 1 (first year) chemistry content, 2007-8

Physics

• Observational error (aka experimental error)
  • Random error
  • Propagation of uncertainty

Second year

see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2 for Level 2 (second year) content, 2008-9

Third year

see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/3 for Level 3 (third year) content, 2009-10

Possibly studied but I can't remember

• Fajans' rules

Not studied yet

Fashionable topics

• Click chemistry
  • Azide alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
• Combinatorial chemistry
  • Dynamic combinatorial chemistry
• Cheminformatics
  • Chemical space
  • Chemical database
  • Chemical library
• 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

• Microscopic reversibility
• Hammett principle / Hammett equation
  • Taft equation
• Hammett acidity function
• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, Chemical clock, Iodine clock reaction, Bray-Liebhafsky reaction, Old Nassau reaction
• Bra-ket notation:

$\langle n|n'\rangle =\delta _{nn'}{\text{ means }}\int {\psi _{n}^{*}\psi _{n'}}d\tau =0{\text{ if }}n\neq n'{\text{ and }}\int {\psi _{n}^{*}\psi _{n'}}d\tau =1{\text{ if }}n=n'$

• Molecular dynamics
• Hypervalency, three-center four-electron bonds
• Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Theoretical chemistry

• Proper valence bond theory
  • Generalized valence bond
  • Modern valence bond theory
• Electronic correlation
• Hartree–Fock
• Post-Hartree–Fock
• Configuration interaction
• Coupled cluster
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory

Organic chemistry

Physical organic chemistry

• Hammett equation
• Thorpe–Ingold effect

Various pericyclic reactions

• Electrocyclic reaction
• Dyotropic reaction

Various rearrangements

• 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

• Nazarov cyclization reaction
• Volhard-Erdmann cyclization
• Wenker synthesis

Olefinations

• 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

• 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

• Total synthesis
• Weinreb ketone synthesis

Miscellaneous

• Steglich esterification
• Zinc-copper couple
• Norrish reactions
• Grieco elimination
• Meerwein arylation
• Hydrazone iodination
• Thiol-yne reaction
• Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation

Organometallic chemistry

• Ring-closing metathesis
• Suzuki reaction

Inorganic chemistry

• Charge transfer complexes
• Ligands:
  • Pincer ligands
  • Scorpionate ligands
    • Trispyrazolylborates
• Agostic interaction
• Vibrational circular dichroism

Crystallography

• Ewald's sphere
  • Stereographic projection / Pole figure
• 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
  • Small-angle X-ray scattering
  • Wide angle X-ray scattering
  • X-ray reflectivity
  • Compton scattering
  • Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
  • X-ray Raman scattering
• 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

• Elemental analysis

Cambridge NatSci first year

Chemistry

• Chemistry
• NMR
• SN1, SN2

Physics

• Physics
• special relativity

Maths

• Maths

Vectors

• Scalars and vectors
• Vector algebra
  • Vector addition
  • Scalar product
  • Vector product
• Vector area
• Coordinate systems

Complex numbers

• Complex numbers
• Real and imaginary parts
• Complex algebra
• Trigonometry and complex numbers
• de Moivre's theorem
• Simple harmonic motion
  • Description of circular motion using complex numbers

Calculus

• Differentiation
• Integration
  • Schwarz's inequality
  • Multiple integrals, Gaussian integrals

Power series

• Power series

Hyperbolic functions

• Hyperbolic functions
• Inverse hyperbolic functions

Calculus

• Calculus

Differentiation

• Differentiation
  • Product rule
  • Chain rule
  • Quotient rule
  • Curve sketching

Integration

• Integration
  • Standard integrals
    • Integration by parts
    • Partial fractions
    • Integration by substitution
  • Integration by reduction formulae

Ordinary differential equations

• Ordinary differential equations

Partial differentiation

• Partial differentiation
• Unconstrained stationary values
• Maxwell relations

Statistics

• Error function

Materials

• Materials science
• Eutectic point
• Steel
  • Martensite and martensitic transformations: at msm.cam.ac.uk
  • Austenite
  • Cementite
  • Pearlite

Cells

• Cell biology

Metabolism

• Metabolic pathways
  • Glycolysis
  • Gluconeogenesis
  • Citric acid cycle
  • Fatty acid metabolism: beta oxidation

• Metabolomics

Other

Purpose of this page

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

see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/why

Just for fun: things that are really complicated

Physics

• 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

Philosophy

• Philosophy of science
  • Evolution as theory and fact
  • History of evolutionary thought
  • Modern evolutionary synthesis