Pass Organic Chemistry

Most drugs are small organic molecules. The pharmaceutical industry needs lots of scientists that know how to make them. Organic...

Organic chemistry requires lots of memorization as well as the understanding of hard concepts. The kind of thinking and studying that is req...

Do this at the beginning of the year or before you take organic chemistry. Ask your friends for old exams and answ...

1. Memorize common functional groups. 2. Memorize the names of common organic chemicals. 3. Learn to name org...

There are classic organic chemistry questions that show up on tests no matter what school you go to or what instructor you get. ...

There are several strategies for predicting the product of a chemical reaction. You can memorize what the reagents do and what p...

Some reactions are named after the person that discovered them. There are a handful of named reactions that you can expect to se...

Drawing reaction mechanisms may be the hardest part of organic chemistry. Even really smart people think that they look like gib...

Reagent Abbreviation Gringard Reagent RMgX, RMgBr, RMgI Pyridinium Chlorochr...

You should not only know the name and structure of solvents, but also their dielectric constants and boiling points. Some reacti...

Acidic molecules form stable conjugate bases. Molecules that are stabilized by inductance are not as stable as those that are st...

Chemicals are soluble in other chemicals that can form the same intermolecular forces. Water is not soluble in ethyl ether becau...

There are two key things to look at when interpreting an NMR spectrum. The shift of each signal and it’s multiplicity. The furth...

Oxidation can be thought of as the loss of hydrogen or the gain of oxygen. Reduction can be thought of as the gain of hydrogen or loss of ox...

When chemicals are mixed, several reactions often take place at the same time. Often, only one product is desired. As a matter o...

If you mix two powders together, they will not react with each other very quickly. This is why almost all organic chemistry is d...

Thin layer chromatography is a very quick and easy way to check the purity of a chemical, see if a reaction is over, estimate ho...

Some chemical reactions require extremely dry solvents. This is because water can interfere with chemical reactions in many diff...

Previous generations of chemists would often heat chemicals with electrical heating mantles. Microwave synthesizers are a much m...

Scientists share their findings by writing papers in peer reviewed journals like Organic Letters and Organometallics. The peer r...