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Hi all, I am writing my thesis and managing the references. I have faced an issue. For each chapter, I want to start the reference number from 1 (not starting from the last reference number of the last chapter). I am using Mendeley desktop as reference manager and I am using microsoft word office. I have tried "page break" and "section break" but It did not solve the problem. I appreciate any help. Thanks

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Could you please explain more?Do you mean this: I should add basic aqueous solution of a sodium salt to it, Then dicarboxylic acid will form which is probably soluble in water. right? and diketone will remain? Thanks for your reply by the way

I draw the two compounds in attached file. R is an aromatic ring

I have a mixture of an aromatic diketone and its anhydride. I was not able to separate them with column chromatography as they came out almost at the same time and the process was so time consuming in the case of using longer column. I also have to work with small amount of materials and most of my product was wasted in column.. I was wondering if anybody knows a better separation method?

So If you are not able to see any peak in carboxylic acid range of the HNMR , I think you should doubt that your compounds contains carboxylic acid group. see following IR spectrum If your spectrum contains this kind of broad peaks at around 3300, and if it is this much small in comparison with other peaks. it is not a reliable peak to assign it as OH of carboxylic acid group. you have to do other characterization to get the structure. at least from the reaction that you have done you should have an idea what you are expecting to see. following websites can be helpful for characterization: http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng http://www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/handouts/nmr-h/hdata.htm http://www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/handouts/nmr-c13/cdata.htm

The free hydroxyl group ( I mean without hydrogen bonding) normally is not very broad in IR. I agree with hypervalent_iodine, if you provide the spectrum it will be great. Also I should note that for characterization of an unknown compound, one method is not enough. HNMR also can confirm the idea of having carboxylic acid group ( broad peak around 12ppm).

They probably used "diamond anvil cell" for their FTIR which can be used when small amount of samples is provided (your sample will be usable easily after getting spectrum). I doubt that it is reflectance IR experiment.

I want to find the error for each lnk.

OK sure!!!

How did you run the IR spectrum?have you made a disk with KBr ?or is it in Nojul mull? or have you made a solution?

Basity is different from nucleophilisity. Bigger atoms are better nucleophile because they can polarize better than the small atoms because of that SH is better nucleophile than OH. but OH is better base because it is small and it can grab the protons more easier than SH. Alcohols are not strong nuclephile. but if they want to act as nuclephile, the less bulky should be better for attacking to the electrophile. if you mention the reaction that you are looking at, I might have ability to help more

The withdrawing groups can affect on acidity as well. Carbonyl group is almost withdrawing; therefore the CH which is placed between two carbonyl groups (proton B) is enough acidic. Also when proton B is removed the remaining carboanion can be stabilized by two carbonyl groups through resonance. the acidic nature of this proton is famous and it has been used in "base catalyzed Aldol reaction". The proton E is related to the alcoholic group. Alcohols are not considered acidic. but it is more acidic than proton A,C and D.because the proton is attached to the electronegative atom (oxygen). after removing the proton the oxygen anion is kinda stable. but not as stable as the carboanione which can have resonance with two carbonyl.

sorry, I can not follow it. should i use the derivative of the function to calculate the error for each data?

I have some data with defined standard error. I should calculate the ln() of each data. do you know what would be the error of new data?

I have to present the attached paper in one of my course. I have too many difficulties to understand some part of that: 1- RRKM theory in this paper has been failed to apply and i do not get why? 2-in "Vectorial decomposition coordinate" section they have used reaction coordinate vector to measure the rate constant ratio. do you have any idea how they have done that? I checked the references and they were not that much helpful AccChemRes92.pdf