Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/Worklist
This worklist for the Chemistry WikiProject gives structure and organization to all the work to do. It should be aligned with the goals of the WikiProject. Most topics have articles written, but these articles need to be brought to a higher level of quality. For lists and assessments of chemical compounds, see the WP Chemicals worklist.
Fields of chemistry
| Fields of chemistry | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Write a full page for each of the major sub-disciplines within chemistry. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | |||
| Wikipage | Status | Remark | |
| Analytical chemistry | Start | Needs more content | |
| Biochemistry | B-Class | Good, just needs refs & a little work | |
| Chemical industry | Stub | Needs more content | |
| Chemistry | B-Class | Needs refs, a little cleanup/content | |
| Chemistry education | Stub | ||
| Electrochemistry | B-Class | Strong on history & principles, need techniques | |
| Environmental chemistry | Start | Very short at present | |
| Geochemistry | Stub | ||
| History of chemistry | B-Class | Some missing topics: organic, thermo, green chem, and some sections (elements?) need expansion. | |
| Inorganic chemistry | Start | ||
| Materials science | B-Class | Needs more content, sections, refs | |
| Medicinal chemistry | Start | ||
| Organic chemistry | B-Class | Needs much more content, refs | |
| Organometallic chemistry | Start | ||
| Physical chemistry | Stub | ||
| Polymer chemistry | Start | ||
| Theoretical chemistry | Start | ||
Chemical engineering could have been included, but this is mainly engineering, and there are some other interdisciplinary areas omitted for similar reasons. Quantum and Computational are covered under Theoretical, as agreed here.
Concepts
| Key concepts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Write a full page for 30 important concepts such as solution, from a variety of areas of chemistry. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | |||
| Wikipage | Status | Remark | |
| Acid | B-Class | Needs some cleanup and some content. Some long lists need dealing with. | |
| Aromaticity | B-Class | Needs more content, full MO section, refs | |
| Base (chemistry) | Start | More content needed, refs | |
| Chemical bond | B-Class | Nice, close to A-Class, just needs tweaking, more refs. | |
| Chemical element | B-Class | Decent, but needs a bit more, + refs | |
| Chemical equation | B-Class | Rather too much on "how to balance", not enough on what they are. | |
| Chemical equilibrium | Start | Needs more basic description and content, only math at present. | |
| Chemical formula | Start | No line-angle formula, no mention of Laws of Composition. | |
Catalyst |
Start | Could use: Diagrams (lower Ea), organometallic cats, importance in green chemistry, etc. | |
| Chemical kinetics | B-Class | Very nicely done so far, but needs more | |
| Chemical reaction | B-Class | A bit of a hotchpotch, needs rewrite + content | |
| Chemical substance | B-Class | Mainly points to types of substance. Definition also seems iffy | |
| Chemical thermodynamics | Stub | Called Thermochemistry | |
| Colloid | B-Class | Good intro, needs more | |
Complex (chemistry) |
B-Class | Needs more structure & much more content. | |
| Crystal | Start | ||
| Crystallography | B-Class | Very nicely done, but no refs | |
| Electronegativity | Start | Basic at present, but lovely table of EN values | |
| Gas | Start | Pretty basic at present | |
| Ion | Start | Needs much more content | |
IUPAC nomenclature |
Start | A great start, then it stops! | |
| Liquid | Start | Pretty embarrassing for such a major concept! | |
| Organic synthesis | B-Class | Could be expanded a bit, some examples added? | |
| Polymer | B-Class | Good solid start, but needs more e.g. living polymers, dendrimers, also pics. | |
| Redox | B-Class | Reads rather like a textbook at times. Also needs more, e.g. mention more on oxidn. # and electrochemistry. | |
| Solid | Stub | As with liquid, embarrassing! | |
| Solution | Start | Good intro, needs more | |
| Solvent | B-Class | A good start, maybe some more P-Chem & pictures | |
| Spectroscopy | B-Class | Very nice, just needs refs (+ more pix?) to be A-Class | |
Remark: I think a number of these would be better served by a unified article: such as
solute, if it were on the list). Shimmin 19:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
]
- I think the approach used with {{Featured topics. Physchim62 (talk) 13:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)]
Aqueous is basically a stub with a redirect to water. I have replaced it with Ion which seems pretty important, is this OK? Walkerma 18:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)]
- I disagree with solution & solvent being unified, I think these are both significant enough and different enough to warrant their own articles. Walkerma 02:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Chemists
| Chemists | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Write a full page for a selection of 40 "giants of chemistry" such as Antoine Lavoisier. 15 of these should be historical figures from early history up to the 18th century, while another 15 should have been active during the 19th century. The last 10 should be from the 20th and 21st century. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | ||||
| Wikipage | Date | Status | Life | Remark |
| Jabir ibn Hayyan | Jun 24, 06 | B-Class | 721-815 | Cleanup tag |
| Roger Bacon | A-Class | 1214-1294 | Isn't Bacon more a general scientist? | |
Georg Agricola |
Jun 24, 06 | Start | 1490-1555 | |
| Paracelsus | Jun 24, 06 | Start | 1493-1541 | |
Basilius Valentinus |
Jun 24, 06 | Start | 15th century | |
| Nicolas Flamel | Jun 24, 06 | Start | 15th century | |
| Andreas Libavius | Jun 24, 06 | Stub | 1550-1616 | |
| Jan Baptist van Helmont | Jun 24, 06 | B-Class | 1577-1644 | sectioning |
| Robert Boyle | Jun 24, 06 | B-Class | 1627-1692 | Failed GA |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele | Jul 2, 06 | Start | 1742-1786 | |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Jul 2, 06 | A-Class | 1743-1794 | |
| Claude Louis Berthollet | Jul 2, 06 | Stub | 1748-1822 | |
| John Dalton | Jul 2, 06 | A-Class | 1766-1844 | |
Jöns Jakob Berzelius |
Jul 2, 06 | Start | 1779-1848 | |
| Michael Faraday | Jul 2, 06 | A-Class | 1791-1867 | |
| Humphry Davy | Jul 2, 06 | Start | 1778-1829 | sectioning, publications, references |
| Justus von Liebig | Jul 2, 06 | A-Class | 1803-1873 | |
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
Jul 2, 06 | Start | 1811-1899 | |
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz |
Jul 2, 06 | Start | 1829-1896 | |
Dmitri Mendeleyev |
Jul 2, 06 | B-Class | 1834-1907 | |
| Adolf von Baeyer | Jul 23, 06 | Start | 1835-1917 | |
William Perkin |
Jul 23, 06 | B-Class | 1838-1907 | More refs needed, article mainly on mauve |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | Jul 23, 06 | B-Class | 1839-1903 | More refs |
| Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | Jul 23, 06 | B-Class | 1852-1911 | rather short |
| Svante Arrhenius | Jul 23, 06 | B-Class | 1859-1927 | sectioning, rather unbalanced (weak on Eact work) |
| Walther Nernst | B-Class | 1864-1941 | rather short | |
| Alfred Werner | Stub | 1866-1919 | ||
| Marie Curie | A-Class | 1867-1934 | ||
| Ernest Rutherford | B-Class | 1871-1937 | sectioning | |
| Gilbert N. Lewis | B-Class | 1875-1946 | sectioning, references | |
| Irving Langmuir | A-Class | 1881-1957 | ||
| Linus Pauling | A-Class | 1901-1994 | ||
| Paul Flory | Start | 1910-1985 | ||
Robert B. Woodward |
A-Class | 1917-1979 | ||
| Elias James Corey | Start | 1928- | ||
Chemical reactions
| Important chemical reactions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Write a full page for 15 major classes of chemical reactions. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | |||
| Wikipage | Status | Assessment date |
Remark |
| Alkylation | Start | Mar 31 2006 | Mainly petrochem alkylation |
| Acylation | Start | Mar 31 2006 | Needs better writing + more content |
| Condensation reaction | Start | Mar 31 2006 | Needs some examples, figures |
| Coupling reaction | Start | Mar 31 2006 | A bit of a hotch-potch mix now |
| Electrophilic aromatic substitution | B-Class | Mar 31 2006 | Mostly there, needs general cleanup |
| Electrophilic addition | Start | Mar 31 2006 | Basic intro only, needs much more |
Free radical addition |
Stub | Mar 31 2006 | Just one example rxn at present |
Free radical substitution |
Start | Mar 31 2006 | A good start |
| Nucleophilic substitution | B-Class | Apr 1 2006 | Needs some inorganic examples + more unsatd substitn |
| Hydration reaction | Stub | Apr 1 2006 | Very narrow |
| Hydrolysis | Start | Apr 1 2006 | A bit of a hotch-potch |
| Neutralization | Start | Apr 1 2006 | Very basic, needs wikifying |
| Nucleophilic acyl substitution | Start | Apr 1 2006 | Good start, needs more |
| Nucleophilic addition | Start | Apr 1 2006 | A lot of lists, rather an odd collection of topics |
| Oxidative addition | Start | Apr 1 2006 | Nice start |
| Pericyclic reaction | Start | Apr 1 2006 | Very basic coverage of chem |
Industrial processes
| Industrial processes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Write a full page for 10 important chemical processes used in industry. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | |||
| Wikipage | Date | Status | Remark |
| Blast furnace | 20 Mar 2006 | B-Class | Does the making of iron/steel deserve its own article? |
| Chemical vapor deposition | 20 Mar 2006 | Start | CVD. Good but very brief |
| Chloralkali process | 20 Mar 2006 | Stub | |
| Contact process | 20 Mar 2006 | Start | Needs rewrite |
| Cracking (chemistry) | 20 Mar 2006 | B-Class | Petrochemical. Good descriptions of types, needs refs |
| Hydroformylation | 20 Mar 2006 | Stub | |
| Haber process | 20 Mar 2006 | Start | |
Hall-Heroult process |
20 Mar 2006 | Start | |
| Saponification | 20 Mar 2006 | Start | An odd selection of material! |
| Solvay process | 20 Mar 2006 | B-Class | No refs |
Lab techniques and analytical methods
| Lab techniques and analytical methods | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Write 20 complete articles on common laboratory techniques (e.g., filtration) and analytical techniques. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | |||
| Wikipage | Status | Remark | |
| Centrifuge | Apr 26, 2006 | Start | Centrifugation is a stub |
| Chromatography | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | V. nice! Just needs some refs to be A-Class |
| Cyclic voltammetry | Apr 26, 2006 | Start | |
| Distillation | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | |
| Gel electrophoresis | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | |
| Filtration | Apr 26, 2006 | Start | |
| Fractional distillation | Apr 26, 2006 | Start | |
Gas-liquid chromatography |
Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | |
| Gravimetric analysis | Apr 26, 2006 | Stub | |
High performance liquid chromatography |
Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | Cleanup tag, I did some cleanup |
| Infrared spectroscopy | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | Close to A-Class, but needs refs |
| Laboratory glassware | Aug 25, 2006 | B-Class | Close to A-Class, but needs refs |
Liquid-liquid extraction |
Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | Long but needs cleanup |
| Mass spectrometry | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | Long but rather messy, also POV dispute & merge tag |
NMR spectroscopy |
Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | Needs more on the basics IMHO |
| Recrystallisation | Apr 26, 2006 | Start | Not much more than a stub |
| Reflux | Apr 26, 2006 | Start | |
| Titration | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | No refs, but getting close to A |
UV/VIS spectroscopy |
Apr 26, 2006 | Start | |
| X-ray crystallography | Apr 26, 2006 | B-Class | |
Should we be considering Differential scanning calorimetry?
Functional groups
| Functional groups | ||
|---|---|---|
| Write a full article covering the 12 major organic functional groups using the class name, such as aldehyde. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | ||
| Wikipage | Status | Remark |
| Alcohol | B-Class | Needs some chem, refs |
| Aldehyde | Start | Pretty basic now |
| Alkane | B-Class | Close to A, but needs refs |
| Alkene | B-Class | On its way, but needs more content all round. Is the naming IUPAC or American? |
| Alkyne | Start | |
| Amide | Start | |
| Amine | Start | A fairly long start, but needs much more |
Aromatic compounds |
Currently a dab to aromaticity, covered under concepts. Should we remove it from here? | |
| Carboxylic acid | Start | Balanced start, but needs more |
| Ester | Start | |
| Haloalkane | Start | Heavily weighted towards CFCs et al I think we need a separate alkyl halide page
|
| Ketone | Start | Lots of headings, not a lot of content! |
Common ions
| Common ions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Write a full article for 12 ions, including the of their completeness. | ||
| Wikipage | Status | Remark |
| Acetate | Stub | |
| Ammonium | Start | |
| Carbonate | Stub | |
| Chloride | Stub | |
| Fluoride | Start | Neutrality dispute |
| Hydroxide | Stub | need to split out material on Hydroxyl radical |
| Nitrate | Start | |
| Oxide | Start | |
| Phosphate | Start | |
| Silicate | Stub | |
| Sulfide | Start | |
| Sulfate | Start | |
Physical chemistry topics
| Physical chemistry topics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Write a full article for 10 major topics in physical chemistry, principally in chemical kinetics and chemical thermodynamics. The status is the assessment of their completeness. | ||
| Wikipage | Status | Remark |
| Acid dissociation constant | B-Class | needs info on determination of pKa values |
| Activation energy | Stub | essay without sections |
| Activated complex | Stub | |
| Avogadro's law | Start | good start, could use some historical discussion |
| Dipole moment | redirects to Dipole | |
| Equilibrium constant | Start | |
| Enthalpy | B-Class | needs more verbal explanation of all the equations, otherwise OK |
| Entropy | Start | in a fairly dire state as far as information content is concerned, work in progress |
| First law of thermodynamics | B-Class | |
| Gas laws | Start | factually inaccurate in several places |
| Gibbs free energy | B-Class | |
| Hess's law | Stub | |
| Paramagnetism | Start | |
| Photoinduced electron transfer | Stub | A two sentence, unreferenced article. |
Rate law |
Start | |
| Reaction rate | B-Class | |
| Second law of thermodynamics | Start | PoV dispute (creationism) |
Solubility product |
See Solubility equilibrium | |
Standard enthalpy change of formation |
Start | |
Standard enthalpy change of reaction |
Stub | |
| Third law of thermodynamics | Stub | |
Arrhenius' law |
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Steady state approximation |
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| Transition state | ||
| Internal energy | ||
Helmholz free energy |
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| Chemical potential | ||
| Activity | ||
| Fugacity | ||
| Standard molar entropy | ||
| Heat capacity | ||
| Phase diagram | ||
Clausius-Clapeyron equation |
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| Kinetic theory of gases | ||
Joule-Thomson expansion |
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| Boltzmann distribution | ||
| Carnot cycle | A-Class | could be still be improved, but nothing really to argue with |
| Triple point | ||
| Critical point | ||