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We can take the electrophilic addition of bromine to ethene as an example. The double bond in ethene acts as an area of high electron density causing an induced dipole on the Br₂ molecule, givi...

For the boiling point to be reached all of the intermolecular bonds must be broken. In an alkane the only two elements are hydrogen and carbon. The molecular structure of the alkane means that the intermo...

Alkanes are non-polar so only have London forces between them. These intermolecular bonds are weak, and easily overcome with little energy. This means that alkanes have a low boiling point hence they are ...

First thing to remember is that when drawing curly arrows, the arrows start where the electrons start and finish where the electrons end up. For this reaction the lone pair of electrons on the oxygen from...

An increase temperature favours the endothermic direction of an equilibrium reaction; this is because there is more energy in the surroundings to accommodate for the energy that will be taken into the sys...