Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry(chem.ucla.edu)
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Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~harding/IGOC/C/common_name.html
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Home page of this glossary: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~harding/IGOC/IGOC.html
Thanks, this is something I needed but was too lazy to search for. Perfect for quick lookups
Dr. Hardinger at UCLA teaches the intro organic chemistry courses for essentially anyone graduating in science. His lectures regularly exceeded enrollment of 1000 people per quarter when I was there in 2009.
Dr. Hardinger also wrote his own text books. He’d charge $35ish for them through the university publisher instead of making us buy much more expensive professionally published text books. I personally thought they were well written and his problem sets and worked explanations were clear and concise. All in all a great professor.
Dr. Hardinger also wrote his own text books. He’d charge $35ish for them through the university publisher instead of making us buy much more expensive professionally published text books. I personally thought they were well written and his problem sets and worked explanations were clear and concise. All in all a great professor.
I would love if there were an illustration of how to understand organic chemistry as not a collection of endless "rules" that yet have annoying exceptions, and tables and tables of pKas that mean you just have to remember that something does what it does, "because".
I have been working on this site for 11 years, has 400 free articles on intro organic chemistry:
https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com
Probably the most fun thing I ever did was breaking down the mechanisms of 25-30 reactions into individual steps, and then assigning a musical note to each step. Playing the sequence of notes helps you recognize the patterns behind the reactions. One pattern in particular (protonation-carbonyl addition-deprotonation-protonation-elimination-deprotonation, or PADPED) covers the mechanism of at least 8 superficially different reactions.
Another great organic chemistry resource:
https://organicchemistrydata.org/hansreich/resources/pka/#pk...
Thank you! I will have a look.
That's the problem with chemistry though, a lot of it is "just because". We only have certain numbers to work with. The Lego set of organic chemistry only contains so many pieces.
Wait there's a LEGO SET!?!?
Oh, wait, you probably meant that as a metaphor, didn't you?
Oh, wait, you probably meant that as a metaphor, didn't you?
Not my downvote, but lots of molecular model sets are more like Tinkertoys.
Edit: corrective upvote actually
Edit: corrective upvote actually
I wish somebody would analyze all these symbols from the perspective of formal languages.
For example: rather than trying to force people to memorize solvent-reaction combinations, have them actually try the wrong combinations and show them physically what happens. Seeing the reaction fail, then getting into why that is would likely stick more than just seeing a red X mark beside the wrong selection on paper. Always found doing the lab course first made the subject just make sense.
The "you won't always have a reference" argument is nonsense. Am I going to be teleported back in time and have to recreate modern medicine?