User:Benjah-bmm27/degree



=Bristol=
 * Undergraduate education

Prerequisite knowledge

 * Valence, and the concept of oxidation states that superceded it
 * Recrystallization
 * Anti-bumping granules

Academic journal archives

 * SciFinder
 * ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science
 * JSTOR
 * Google Scholar

Chemistry
see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1 for Level 1 (first year) chemistry content, 2007-8

Physics

 * Observational error (aka experimental error)
 * Random error
 * Propagation of uncertainty

Second year
see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2 for Level 2 (second year) content, 2008-9

Third year
see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/3 for Level 3 (third year) content, 2009-10

Possibly studied but I can't remember

 * Fajans' rules

Fashionable topics

 * Click chemistry
 * Azide alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
 * Combinatorial chemistry
 * Dynamic combinatorial chemistry
 * Cheminformatics
 * Chemical space
 * Chemical database
 * Chemical library
 * Drug development: drug discovery, drug discovery hit to lead, lead compound, high-throughput screening, compound management, drug design, quantitative structure-activity relationship, virtual screening, druglikeness
 * Green chemistry
 * Microwave chemistry
 * Sonochemistry
 * Solid-phase synthesis
 * Synthetic photochemistry

Physical chemistry

 * Microscopic reversibility
 * Hammett principle / Hammett equation
 * Taft equation
 * Hammett acidity function
 * Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, Chemical clock, Iodine clock reaction, Bray-Liebhafsky reaction, Old Nassau reaction
 * Bra-ket notation:
 * $$\langle n|n' \rangle = \delta _{nn'} \text{ means } \int { \psi _{n}^{*} \psi _{n'} } d \tau  = 0 \text{ if } n \ne n' \text{ and } \int { \psi _{n}^{*}  \psi _{n'} } d \tau  = 1 \text{ if } n = n'$$


 * Molecular dynamics
 * Hypervalency, three-center four-electron bonds
 * Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Theoretical chemistry

 * Proper valence bond theory
 * Generalized valence bond
 * Modern valence bond theory
 * Electronic correlation
 * Hartree–Fock
 * Post-Hartree–Fock
 * Configuration interaction
 * Coupled cluster
 * Møller–Plesset perturbation theory

Physical organic chemistry

 * Hammett equation
 * Thorpe–Ingold effect

Various pericyclic reactions

 * Electrocyclic reaction
 * Dyotropic reaction

Various rearrangements

 * 1,2-Wittig rearrangement
 * Gabriel-Colman rearrangement
 * Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement
 * Chan rearrangement, using N,O-dimethylhydroxylamine
 * Stieglitz rearrangement
 * Meyer–Schuster rearrangement
 * Divinylcyclopropane-cycloheptadiene rearrangement

Various cyclizations

 * Nazarov cyclization reaction
 * Volhard-Erdmann cyclization
 * Wenker synthesis

Olefinations

 * Barton-Kellogg reaction - like a thio Wittig rxn
 * Julia olefination - Wittig with phenylsulfonyl carbanion as nucleophile
 * Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction - Wittig with phosphonate carbanion as nucleophile
 * Peterson olefination - Wittig with α-silyl carbanion as nucleophile
 * Tebbe olefination - Wittig with Cp2Ti=CH2 Schrock carbene as nucleophile
 * Takai olefination
 * Kauffmann olefination

Tosylhydrazones

 * N-tosylhydrazone-based reactions:
 * the Bamford–Stevens reaction: a tosylhydrazone + a strong base → an alkene
 * the Shapiro reaction:
 * a tosylhydrazone + an organolithium base → a vinyllithium
 * the vinyllithium + water → an alkene
 * the vinyllithium + an electrophile, E → an E-substituted alkene
 * an N-tosylhydrazone did appear in a question on the Eschenmoser fragmentation from the first Level 3 VKA pre-workshop

Synthesis

 * Total synthesis
 * Weinreb ketone synthesis

Miscellaneous

 * Steglich esterification
 * Zinc-copper couple
 * Norrish reactions
 * Grieco elimination
 * Meerwein arylation
 * Hydrazone iodination
 * Thiol-yne reaction
 * Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation

Organometallic chemistry

 * Ring-closing metathesis
 * Suzuki reaction

Inorganic chemistry

 * Charge transfer complexes
 * Ligands:
 * Pincer ligands
 * Scorpionate ligands
 * Trispyrazolylborates
 * Agostic interaction
 * Vibrational circular dichroism

Crystallography

 * Ewald's sphere
 * Stereographic projection / Pole figure
 * Reciprocal lattice
 * R-factor (crystallography)
 * Difference density map
 * Resolution (electron density)
 * Crystallographic point group (Point groups in three dimensions), Schoenflies notation and Hermann–Mauguin notation
 * Ewald summation?
 * Powder diffraction
 * Neutron diffraction
 * X-ray scattering techniques
 * Small-angle X-ray scattering
 * Wide angle X-ray scattering
 * X-ray reflectivity
 * Compton scattering
 * Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
 * X-ray Raman scattering
 * International Centre for Diffraction Data
 * Mineralogy
 * Metallurgy
 * Wigner–Seitz cell
 * Brillouin zone
 * Laue equations
 * Molecular replacement
 * Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
 * Neutron scattering
 * Order (crystal lattice)
 * Sphere packing
 * Time resolved crystallography
 * Wyckoff positions

Analytical chemistry

 * Elemental analysis

=Cambridge NatSci first year=

Chemistry

 * Chemistry
 * NMR
 * SN1, SN2

Physics

 * Physics
 * special relativity

Maths

 * Maths

Vectors

 * Scalars and vectors
 * Vector algebra
 * Vector addition
 * Scalar product
 * Vector product
 * Vector area
 * Coordinate systems

Complex numbers

 * Complex numbers
 * Real and imaginary parts
 * Complex algebra
 * Trigonometry and complex numbers
 * de Moivre's theorem
 * Simple harmonic motion
 * Description of circular motion using complex numbers

Calculus

 * Differentiation
 * Integration
 * Schwarz's inequality
 * Multiple integrals, Gaussian integrals

Power series

 * Power series

Hyperbolic functions

 * Hyperbolic functions
 * Inverse hyperbolic functions

Calculus

 * Calculus

Differentiation

 * Differentiation
 * Product rule
 * Chain rule
 * Quotient rule
 * Curve sketching

Integration

 * Integration
 * Standard integrals
 * Integration by parts
 * Partial fractions
 * Integration by substitution
 * Integration by reduction formulae

Ordinary differential equations

 * Ordinary differential equations

Partial diﬀerentiation

 * Partial diﬀerentiation
 * Unconstrained stationary values
 * Maxwell relations

Statistics

 * Error function

Materials

 * Materials science
 * Eutectic point
 * Steel
 * Martensite and martensitic transformations: at msm.cam.ac.uk
 * Austenite
 * Cementite
 * Pearlite

Cells

 * Cell biology

Metabolism

 * Metabolic pathways
 * Glycolysis
 * Gluconeogenesis
 * Citric acid cycle
 * Fatty acid metabolism: beta oxidation


 * Metabolomics

=Other=

Purpose of this page
I created this user page to help me identify articles I can contribute to, from the perspective of an undergraduate learning these topics for the first time.

Reasons for studying chemistry
see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/why

Physics

 * Navier–Stokes equations
 * Einstein field equations
 * Dark energy, Dark matter
 * Standard Model (mathematical formulation), Lagrangian of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, after electroweak symmetry breaking, with no explicit Higgs boson
 * Yang–Mills theory (not related to me)
 * String theory
 * M-theory
 * Metric expansion of space

Philosophy

 * Philosophy of science
 * Evolution as theory and fact
 * History of evolutionary thought
 * Modern evolutionary synthesis