“Reagents”: A Pocket Encylopedia of Reagents for Organic Chemistry

Reagents is a new app for iPhone and iPad that gives you all the key information about the most commonly encountered reagents in undergraduate organic chemistry courses.

Here’s the key features of Reagents:

  • It’s comprehensive - with profiles of over 80 reagents, along with their key reactions.
  • It’s detailed - with hundreds of example reactions in all, from commonplace to obscure.
  • It’s customizable - so you can make your own list of only the reagents which are most important to you. You can always modify your list as you progress through the course.

And for a limited time it’s also free.

What does this mean for you?

  • More efficient studying. Spend less time hunting down information: all the key details for every reagent are accessible in seconds.
  • Less time being lost in class. Need a refresher on that reaction?  Forgotten what that reagent does? You can look each reagent up in a snap.
  • Study reagents wherever you go. It’s all on your iPhone – so you can finally cut that umbilical cord between you and your textbook.
Did you see that it’s free? 
Let’s face it: textbooks are great, but they’re not always the ideal tool for the job.

When you need all the background information to understand a particular reaction or concept, a textbook is indispensable.

But what if you don’t need all the background information, right now. What if you just want to remind yourself, quickly, of something you’ve already learned?

In other words, what if you just want the Abridged Version?

My students describe having this problem a lot.

They’re working away on a problem and suddenly need to remind themselves of what a certain reagent (let’s say NaBH4) does. So they have to pull out their 1000 page textbook to look it up. Except… the textbook points them to multiple pages, some of which are relevant, some not. After a minute or two, they get the information they need. Until… five minutes later, when they need to do this again, and again. Hunting through a huge textbook for tiny pieces of information can be a pain. 

Now you can answer the question, “What does that reagent do again?” in a few seconds. And then go back to your work.  

In other words, you can spend less time searching and more time actually studying. 

That was the idea behind the Reagent Guide, which puts all the reagents of organic chemistry on your desktop.

Now, in collaboration with Metamolecular, the Reagent Guide has been adapted for the iPhone and iPad.

The result is Reagents –  a pocket encyclopedia of all the most common reagents in organic chemistry.

Reagents brings you the comprehensiveness of a textbook, but with all the convenience of a mobile app. 

Oh yeah… did you see that Reagents is free? (But won’t be free forever) 

 

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