Ontology:GrignardReaction
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[Z2]Grignard reaction 1-1-1
Core characteristics
- item type
- Z2
- pronounced [P] alias (mis) [string]
- carboxylation reaction (with Grignard group; chemistry)
- QID references [Item] 1-1-1
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- color swatch references [Item]
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- sub-case of [Item]
- organic chemistry reaction
- case of [Item]
- chemical reaction
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Components
- consists of components [Item]
- magnesium halide compound
- carbon dioxide
- water
Process steps
- model combines processes
- Benzene to magnesium-halide bond interacts with carbon
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- Carbon to oxygen double bond reverts to oxide
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- Carboxylate is formed / Benzoate is formed
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- Carboxylate takes proton from hydronium
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- Hydronium reverts to water
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- Carboxylic acid is formed
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- Water is formed
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- Magnesium halide ion is formed
Wavebuilder combinations
- pronounced [P] pronounced Wavebuilder: forms result [Item]
- carboxylic acid
- along with [Item]
- [Z2]Grignard reaction 1-1-1
Usage notes
Grignard reactions have a number of practical uses in chemistry for creating structures that combine onto carboxylic acids.
In addition to this, any chemical reaction like this with a relatively low complexity can be used to demonstrate the concept of relativistic determinism. A chemical reaction cannot be studied as the behavior of just one chemical; it is always the study of two things at a time. Chemicals begin in two particular structures: benzene magnesium halide, carbon dioxide. Then the chemicals collide in repeated processes which are individually predictable in their structure: magnesium halide bond snaps, carbon-oxygen bond snaps, carboxylate produced, carboxylate picks off proton to create acid. This process repeats every time the appropriate number of magnesium halide molecules runs into carbon dioxide molecules, over and over; each time the process is more or less the same, yet it will happen millions of times, taking place across a whole "population" of molecules in a solution. There is a slight difference between chemicals and populations in that the structures of a population may be marginally larger in scale as a portion of a population than a molecule would be. Taking a beaker of liquid as a model of a population, social structures may be somewhere between the size of a molecule and a cell. Nonetheless, in building models of either everyday societal transformation or revolution it is worth thinking about the mechanisms of chemistry: bond breaking, bond forming, same predictable processes happening again and again without a lot of uncertainty about which things are and aren't possible.