Chemistry skills for AI agents

Triggers when users need help with analytical chemistry, including qualitative and quantitative analysis, gravimetric and volumetric methods, spectroscopic methods such as UV-Vis, IR, NMR, and mass spectrometry, chromatography including GC, HPLC, and TLC, electroanalytical methods, sample preparation, method validation, and quality control. Activate for questions about chemical analysis, instrument techniques, data interpretation, or method development.

Triggers when users need help with biochemistry, including amino acids, protein structure, protein folding, enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids, membranes, nucleic acids, DNA, RNA, metabolism, glycolysis, TCA cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, photosynthesis, enzyme kinetics, Michaelis-Menten, signal transduction, and gene expression. Activate for questions about biological molecules, metabolic pathways, or the molecular basis of life.

Triggers when users need help with chemical safety and laboratory practices, including laboratory safety protocols, hazard identification, GHS pictograms, Safety Data Sheets, chemical storage and compatibility, waste disposal, fume hood operation, PPE selection, emergency procedures, safety culture, risk assessment for experiments, and regulatory compliance with OSHA and EPA. Activate for questions about lab safety, chemical handling, hazardous materials, or safe experimental design.

Triggers when users need help with computational chemistry, including molecular mechanics, semi-empirical methods, density functional theory, DFT, ab initio methods, Hartree-Fock, post-Hartree-Fock methods, molecular dynamics simulations, quantum chemistry software such as Gaussian, ORCA, and VASP, basis sets, and applications in drug discovery and materials science. Activate for questions about electronic structure calculations, force fields, simulations, or computational modeling of chemical systems.

Triggers when users need help with environmental chemistry, including atmospheric chemistry, ozone depletion, greenhouse gases, aerosols, water chemistry, water treatment, contaminants, soil chemistry, biogeochemical cycles, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle, environmental toxicology, green chemistry principles, and remediation strategies. Activate for questions about pollution, environmental fate of chemicals, climate chemistry, or sustainable chemical practices.

Triggers when users need help with general chemistry topics, including atomic structure, periodic table trends, chemical bonding, Lewis structures, VSEPR theory, stoichiometry, balancing equations, the mole concept, gas laws, solutions, concentration, and acid-base chemistry. Activate for questions about pH, buffers, titrations, ionic and covalent bonding, metallic bonding, molecular geometry, or fundamental chemical calculations.

Triggers when users need help with inorganic chemistry, including coordination chemistry, crystal field theory, ligand field theory, organometallic compounds, bioinorganic chemistry, solid state chemistry, main group chemistry, transition metal chemistry, catalysis, symmetry operations, and group theory. Activate for questions about metal complexes, d-orbital splitting, point groups, or inorganic reaction mechanisms.

Triggers when users need help with materials chemistry, including synthesis of nanomaterials, semiconductors, ceramics, composites, thin films, surface modification, characterization techniques such as XRD, SEM, TEM, AFM, smart materials, biomaterials, and energy materials including batteries, solar cells, and fuel cells. Activate for questions about material design, synthesis, structure-property relationships, or characterization of solid-state and nanoscale materials.

Triggers when users need help with medicinal chemistry, including drug design principles, structure-activity relationships, SAR, pharmacokinetics, ADME, lead optimization, computational drug design, molecular docking, QSAR, natural products chemistry, prodrug strategies, drug resistance mechanisms, and the clinical development pipeline. Activate for questions about drug discovery, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, or the design of bioactive molecules.

Triggers when users need help with organic chemistry, including functional groups, IUPAC nomenclature, stereochemistry, chirality, R/S and E/Z configurations, reaction mechanisms, SN1, SN2, E1, E2 reactions, electrophilic addition, electrophilic aromatic substitution, carbonyl chemistry, retrosynthetic analysis, protecting groups, and named reactions. Activate for questions about organic synthesis, arrow-pushing mechanisms, or structure determination of organic compounds.

Triggers when users need help with physical chemistry, including chemical thermodynamics, enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs free energy, chemical kinetics, rate laws, Arrhenius equation, transition state theory, quantum chemistry basics, spectroscopy theory, surface chemistry, electrochemistry, Nernst equation, galvanic cells, electrolysis, and statistical thermodynamics. Activate for questions about energy, equilibrium, reaction rates, or the physical basis of chemical phenomena.

Triggers when users need help with polymer chemistry, including addition and condensation polymerization, polymer structure and morphology, glass transition temperature, melting behavior, molecular weight distributions, polymer characterization, mechanical properties, conducting polymers, biopolymers, polymer processing, and sustainable polymers. Activate for questions about macromolecules, plastics, rubber, fibers, or polymer synthesis and properties.