White City is a small area in west london created as an exhibition site in 1908, morphing over the years into an Olympic games venue, a greyhound track, the home nearby of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and most recently the new western campus for Imperial College London. ^♣ The first Imperial department to move into the MSRH (Molecular Sciences Research Hub) building is chemistry.

Following my conformational exploration of enols, here is one about a much more common molecule, a carboxylic acid. The components of the search are shown as four queries below, which will be combined in various Boolean senses (DOI: 10.14469/hpc/2462). Query one defines the carboxylic acid, with 3-coordinate carbon specified at the carbonyl along with 1-coordinate for the carbonyl oxygen.

Previously, I looked at models of how ammonia could be protonated by water to form ammonium hydroxide.

Earlier I explored models for the heteroaromatic electrophilic protiodecarboxylation of an 3-substituted indole, focusing on the role of water as the proton transfer and delivery agent. Next, came models for both water and the general base catalysed ionization of indolinones.