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The main advantages of metal-air batteries come from their open stracture that is, they can absorb the cathode active material (oxygen) from the surrounding environment instead of carrying it within the batteries. However, the open structure of metal-air batteries also leads to several disadvantages. 

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Siibmiinng a sinicture to a calculation can be expensive in terms ol hnmati time and elTort. HyperChem lets you build and display inolecn les easily. Since IlyperCh em con tains a graph ical in lerface. you can monitor the con sirnction ofmoleciiles. 

For Woodward-Hoffm an allowed thermal reactions (such as the con rotatory ring opening of cyclobulan e), orbital symmetry is conserved and there is no change in orbital occupancy. Hven though bonds are made and broken, you can use the RHFwave fun etion. 

Use Coringuration Interaction to predict electronic spectra of molecules. The Con ngiiration Interaction wave function provides a ground state plus soin e excited state energies. You can obtain electron ic absorption frequencies from the differences betw een the energies of the ground state and the excited states. 

In th is eon text, K is the total classical energy including kinetic energy. You can then investigate the potential energy surface in a purely classical way using the positions (Rj) and velocities (V = dKi/dt) of the con stitiieri t atom s. 

Molccti lar mcchan ics depends on the con cep I of atom types and parameters associated with these atom types. Since the number of atom types is veiy large foi the tin iverse of possible molecules, parameters will probably he missing for a random new molecule tin less a force field has been developed for molecules sim ilar lo the new molecule. Molecu lar m ech an ics predicts how the new molecule will behave based upon the behavior orknown, similar mole-cu les. 

The con vergen ce of. SCK in teraction s is n o( always succcssfu I. In the simplest iteration procedure, iterations proceed without the aid of cither an external con vergen cc accelerator or an cxtrapola-tor. This often leads to slow convergence. 

The grid of computed values for the variable used in defining the con ton r IS a grid of exactly the si/e of th c cn rren t workin g area sii b-divided even ly such that th e total n urn her of grid poin ts is as th e 11 ser specifies. 

TPi c point r is the position of a positive probe charge. is the n IIclear charge on atom A located at position The function p(r ) IS the electronic density. In the above equation, the first term represen ts the con tribii tion of tli e n nclei to the electrostatic poten tial and the second term is the electronic con tribiition. Siibstitii ting the electron density expression ... 

Just as It makes sense to have a nomenclature system by which we can specify the con stitution of a molecule m words rather than pictures so too is it helpful to have one that lets us describe stereochemistry We have already had some experience with this idea when we distinguished between E and Z stereoisomers of alkenes... 

Periodic acid cleavage of vicinal diols is often used for analytical purposes as an aid m structure determination By identifying the carbonyl compounds produced the con stitution of the starting diol may be deduced This technique finds its widest application with carbohydrates and will be discussed more fully in Chapter 25... 

Write structural formulas corresponding to the intermediates formed in the con (jugate addition step and in the aldol addition step ... 

From this equation it can be seen that when [CH3C02 ] = [CH3CO2H] then the second term is log 1 = 0 and pH = pK This means that when the pH of a solution is equal to the pK of a weak acid the con centration of the acid and its conjugate base are equal This is a relationship worth remembering... 

Relative to each other both hydroxyl groups are on the same side m Fischer pro jections of the erythrose enantiomers The remaining two stereoisomers have hydroxyl groups on opposite sides m their Fischer projections They are diastereomers of d and L erythrose and are called d and l threose The d and l prefixes again specify the con figuration of the highest numbered chirality center d Threose and l threose are enan tiomers of each other... 

Suggest a reasonable structure for the intermediate in the con ] version of dihydroxyacetone phosphate to o glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate J... 

Conjugate acid (Section 1 13) The species formed from a Brpnsted base after it has accepted a proton Conjugate addition (Sections 1010 and 1812) Addition reaction in which the reagent adds to the termini of the con jugated system with migration of the double bond synony mous with 1 4 addition The most common examples include conjugate addition to 1 3 dienes and to a 3 unsaturated car bonyl compounds... 

The central message of chemistry is that the prop erties of a substance come from its structure What is less obvious but very powerful is the corollary Someone with training m chemistry can look at the structure of a substance and tell you a lot about its properties Organic chemistry has always been and continues to be the branch of chemistry that best connects structure with properties Our objective has been to emphasize the con nection between structure and properties using the tools best suited to make that connection... 

Test whether these data obey the WLF equation if so, evaluate the con-stands Cl and C2. Note that Tq =/= Tg = 3°C in these data. 

Based on a sui vey in 1994 for storage tanks, the prices for field-erected tanks are for multiple-tank installations erected by the con-trac tor on foundations provided by the owner. Some cost information on tanks is given in various references cited in Sec. 25. Cost datavaiy considerably from one reference to another. 

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