On Cats, Part 7: The Fischer Projection
Last weekend while parts of North America and Europe were getting buried in snow, my wife and I went to Tel Aviv to pick up
Read moreOrganic Chemistry GIFS – Resonance Forms
Organic Chemistry GIFS: Some Animated GIFS Of Curved Arrow Notation In Interconverting Resonance Forms GIFS are perfectly suited to showing curved arrow animations in organic
Read moreOn Cats, Part 5: Enantiocats vs. Diastereocats
I was out for a walk the other day and I saw 3 of the weirdest/ugliest looking cats I’d ever seen.Even weirder than Freaky Sawhorse
Read moreReproducibility In Organic Chemistry
How One Chemist Playing Hooky From His Day Job Helped To Get A Paper Retracted From Chemistry’s Flagship Journal [In the vein of the recent
Read moreOn Cats, Part 3: Newman Projections
Do you know where the saying “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” comes from? Me neither. But I do know one thing:
Read moreWhat Holds The Nucleus Together?
Here’s what I would call the One Sentence Summary Of Chemistry. If you learn just one thing about chemistry, learn this. “Opposite charges attract, like
Read morePutting Diels-Alder Products in Perspective
One of the things I like about teaching is that it helps me realize some of the things I take for granted that newcomers find
Read moreThe Ups and Downs of Cyclohexanes
Drawing cyclohexane chair forms can be a tricky business. While it’s often intuitive to pick out which groups are up and down when they’re axial
Read moreLevels of Mastery
Here’s an idea I’ve been playing with: levels of mastery. Growing up with video games, it’s an idea that is intuitively familiar, but not often
Read moreIntroduction to Oxidative Cleavage Reactions
The four posts on acid-base, substitution, addition, and elimination covered the 4 main reactions in organic chemistry I. In this second series of posts we go beyond these to introduce a
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