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Umm... :( I'll try to edit it when I have time.

I think the answer from the book is actually wrong - the correct answer should be (d), that is, both adding water and HCl should favour the formation of hypochloric acid. I can't actually remember if the following is part of the HSC. I have a feeling that it's not - but the idea is simple and...

You are absolutely correct. :p Apologies for my ignorance. I will edit the relevant sections of my post. Thank you very much. :)

Re: Cyclohexene + Bromine Water - Exemplar Response; EasyChem To answer js992's original question, the most pedantic way to answer the question in an exam is the formation of both the halohydrin and dibromo adducts: -CH=CH- + Br2 (aq) ----> -CHBr-CHOH- + -CHBr-CHBr- + HBr(aq) This should also...

Almost correct. :p Cyclohexadiene.

Sounds like ChemSketch is being *too* intelligent. :p The only other program that I can recommend and know that what you described will work is ChemBioDraw. A trail is available and *ahem* however you continue using it after the two-week period does not concern me. ;)

Would you mind editing that part of your post out, please? I really don't think such rule exists except in the classroom of a second-grade chemistry teacher.

Interesting enough, I've got a friend who just finished nano and he did honours with us in chem and he just got offered to do postgrad med recently. :) So, I suppose if you are bright enough it doesn't really matter what you did for undergrad (as long as it's not something non-science I suppose...

To be honest, I think Tangent has given you the possible answer, but I thought I'd throw some opinions in for having been through it - in case you are not convinced by him. :) To quote some: "your UAI (or ATAR) will not matter once you have received the offer from the university that you want...

As long as you are not a lazy bum or one of those 09:01-16:59 people then you will be fine. ;) Also, when your supervisor suggests that you should do something (we are talking about reasonable and research related things of course) - do it, don't whinge or say no. I've had someone like that in...

Depends on your supervisor/school, your working habit, how much you want from it and whether you have coursework or not. When I did mine it's expected that I'm in 9 to 5 everyday. Having said that, I probably ended up doing 8-7 on most days and there were days when I was there for... well, a...

I'll be two years into my PhD the coming March. The plan is to submit by publications by the end of the year. :p Part of the reason I'm in the UK and went to Israel for the conference is actually saying hi to people in this part of the world and tell them that I might be coming back. :) I was...

That was the plan before I left Sydney. :p Having seen so many things and met so many people a lot of choices opened up all of a sudden. Also, the people whom I'm interested in postdocing with at Cambridge are mostly retired now lol. :( Given that the UK is also a bit... reserved in very many...

Of course there has been recently developments related to cyclodextrin! :) They range from molecular devices to drug delivery. The following may be useful: I quite like cyclodextrin based [URL"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotaxane"]rotaxanes[/URL]. However this one may be a bit too technical...

;) For me it's mostly staying up a few days in a row. :o Agreed! I made quite a lot of Harry Potter references to my friend while I was there. :p I went punting as well and it was a lot of fun! (Except that my other friends kept complaining about how I was going to capsize the punt...