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Is my Chemistry IA idea too simple and obvious?


Teresawerner

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I'm an SL Chemistry student and I've been struggling to find an idea that is easy enough to investigate in order to obtain interpretable results and difficult/complex enough to show further critical thinking and thorough application of chemistry. My initial idea was to use a simulation to figure out how the electronegativity of a nucleophile (such as the hydroxide ion, cyanide ion and ammonia) affects its bond length when it undergoes a SN1 reaction with a tertiary halogenoalkane. However, after writing up the intro, hypothesis etc. and moving onto the actual simulation work, I could figure out what simulation was appropriate and I could even use to begin exploring this topic. It was too confusing for me and so now I am thinking of looking at how temperature affects the rate of oxidation of alcohol (red and/or white wine? - and comparing the two). But now I feel this topic sounds too simple and straightforward/obvious in its answer. Similarly, I could explore the effect of temperature on the acidity of the wine / how the pH changes as temperature increases? By looking at this I could collect both quantitative and qualitative data, and possibly use a calculation linking temperature and reaction rate (maybe the equilibrium constant?? I’m not really sure). 

If you have any ideas on how I could make this into a good IA, please help!!! 

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