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Re: Stuff on DNA
« Reply #45 on: June 02, 2010, 02:11:00 pm »
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I'm pretty sure for FO2, the oxidation state of oxygen is +0.5, though I have no idea how it gains HALF an electron...
(There are also a few other compounds where oxidation number is sometimes not a whole number or when the oxidation number is not that valence charge, such as HClO <-- the oxidation no. of Cl is actually +1 and not -1. It's actually very unstable.)

As for the first compound, N could be +3. (Nitrogen can lose up to 5 electrons and gain up to 3 electrons.) Assuming F and Cl to have an oxidation no. of -1, O to have an oxidation of -2 and H to have an oxidation no. of +1. But then again, I could be wrong, because H could be -1 and so may differ for other elements. You may want to draw out and try to guess-and-check. :P
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Re: Stuff on DNA
« Reply #46 on: June 02, 2010, 02:14:04 pm »
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Yeah, HClO makes sense.

Just follow FHONCl haha.

H is +1, O is -2, so Cl has to be + 1 :)
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Re: Stuff on DNA
« Reply #47 on: June 02, 2010, 02:52:09 pm »
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Quote from: cherylim23 on June 02, 2010, 02:11:00 pm
I'm pretty sure for FO2, the oxidation state of oxygen is +0.5, though I have no idea how it gains HALF an electron...

oxidation numbers don't mean anything by themselves.

If there is a change then it means something. That change could be anything, so long as you can distinguish it as +ve and -ve.
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Re: Stuff on DNA
« Reply #48 on: June 02, 2010, 10:31:52 pm »
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What is 'FO2'? That doesn't even exist does it?

Oxidation numbers, in reality, only have meaning if there is a physical structure. Later on this concept will be replaced with 'dipole moments'.
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Re: Stuff on DNA
« Reply #49 on: June 03, 2010, 04:11:08 pm »
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How can do you draw the semi structural of molecule with side change CH2C6H5 do you just enclose bracket around the entire side chain like CH3CH2CH(CH2C6H5)CH3
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Re: Stuff on DNA
« Reply #50 on: June 03, 2010, 05:01:52 pm »
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yeah.
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