Goodwill Notoriously Absent In Miramax, MOC Lawsuit
Special to MOC from Variety HOLLYWOOD, CA – Mirimax Entertainment announced today that they are suing educational organic chemistry website Master Organic Chemistry for an
Read moreCyclohexane Chair Conformation Stability: Which One Is Lower Energy?
Finding The Most Stable Conformation Of A Cyclohexane Chair You’re given a structure with two or more substituents on a cyclohexane ring, and you’re asked
Read moreFused Rings – Cis-Decalin and Trans-Decalin
Why Is trans-Decalin More Stable Than cis-Decalin? At the beginning of this series I said that the fact that carbon can form rings leads to
Read moreHow To Apply Memory Techniques In Learning Organic Chemistry
In the last post we talked about how having a great memory is no guarantee of doing well on many types of organic chemistry exams.
Read moreHow Much Does Having A Great Memory Matter?
I recently heard from a reader, Hussain, who told me that he’d been working on memory techniques that allowed him to memorize a deck of
Read moreOxidation and Reduction in Organic Chemistry
Iron smelting! Photo credit: http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/02/iron-smelting-at-acba.html In the beginning, the term actually made sense. When the alchemists and medieval metallurgists started doing experiments to quantify exactly how
Read moreHow Esther Bounced Back From a “C” To Get A’s In Organic Chemistry 1 And 2
The importance of attitude The student who is the subject of today’s success story, Esther, didn’t start off doing well in organic chemistry. Actually, she
Read morePartial Reduction of Alkynes With Lindlar’s Catalyst
Partial Reduction of Alkynes to cis Alkenes with the Lindlar Catalyst Alkynes are generally more reactive towards catalytic hydrogenation (e.g. Pd-C, H2) than alkenes While
Read moreHow Tyrell Got The Highest Grade In Her Organic Chemistry Course
Reader “Tyrell” (not her real name) kindly wrote the other week with her story of how she got the highest mark in her organic chemistry
Read moreThis Is Why Students Use Flashcards
A long but interesting letter from a reader who I’ll call “Annie” on how preparing for an exam the “right way” (learning the mechanisms for
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