Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment
Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment was an experiment performed by the American physicist Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the electric charge of a single electron. The …
Chemistry
Wurtz Reaction
Wurtz Reaction is an organic coupling reaction in organic and organo-metallic chemistry which is named after Charles Adolphe Wurtz . This reaction is also known as Wurtz coupling. It is …
Arrhenius Equation
The Arrhenius Equation is an equation to measure the temperature dependence of the rate of reaction. It has a significant application in determining the rate of a chemical reaction and …
Swarts Reaction
Swarts Reaction is an organic reaction in which alkyl chlorides/alkyl bromides are usually converted to alkyl fluorides. This process was described by Frederick Jean Edmond Swarts in 1892. This reaction …
Finkelstein Reaction
The Finkelstein Reaction is an organic SN2 Reaction(substitution nucleophilic bimolecular reaction) which is named after the German chemist Hans Finkelstein. This reaction involves the exchange of one halogen atom for another. …
Williamson Ether Synthesis Reaction
Williamson Reaction or Williamson Ether Synthesis Reaction, is an organic reaction which results in the formation of an ether from an organohalide (organic molecules in which carbons are linked by …
Reimer Tiemann Reaction
The Reimer Tiemann Reaction is an organic chemical reaction which is used for the ortho-formylation of the phenols(C6H5OH). It is basically substitution reaction and is named after Karl Reimer and Ferdinand …
Gattermann Reaction
The Gattermann reaction is as an organic chemical reaction in which Aromatic compounds are formylated by a mixture of hydrogen cyanide and hydrochloric acid(HCL) in the presence of a Lewis …
Sandmeyer Reaction
Sandmeyer Reaction is basically a substitution reaction, which is widely used to synthesize aryl halides from aryl diazonium salts. To be specific, this reaction is a type of Radical-nucleophilic aromatic …
Cathode Ray Experiment
Cathode Ray Experiment or also commonly known as J.J. Thomson’s experiment is one of the important experiments in particle physics. Electrons which are one of the fundamental particles were discovered …