Organic chemistry

resources that UMD offers such as academic tutoring, TLC equipment loan program and guided study sessions is an issue. From personal experience these resources have helped me a lot through my academics. I remember the time I was studying for my organic chemistry class I was struggling a…

Case study 4 Even in the absence of a known drug target, a drug can be designed to perform a specific function through the testing of a variety of substituents. Through this, the biological activity of each substituent can be determined in order to create the final product in the form of a marketable drug. An example of this is oxamniquine, which is a drug that is active against schistosomes, the causative agent for schistosomiasis (Patrick, 2013, p. 305). Schistosomiasis, caused by three…

Kyle Rohl Chem 3520 Nobel Prize Paper Chemicals in 3D Vision The Nobel Prize in Organic Chemistry for the discovery of chemicals in 3D vision was awarded to Derek Barton and Odd Hassel in 1969. This was the breakthrough in visualizing the way chemicals could be interpreted. Before their phenomenal discovery, people could only think of seeing a chemical such as cyclohexane in its planar, flat, 2D form. What Barton and Hassel found that was different from the universal perspective of this…

OWN MEDICINE Chemist Lee Cronin is a professor of chemistry and nanoscience and chemical complexity. He founded the Cronin group who is focused on complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks. Cronin’s idea is to “app” chemistry and by this he means making a “really cool universal chemistry set”. He speaks with confidence to a mature audience that has an interest in the future of chemistry and medicine and those who create or take…

AHHHH CHOO-DOEPHEDRINE Although, originally defined as the chemistry of biological structures, organic chemistry has since been redefined to refer specifically to organic (carbon based) molecules. The hydrocarbon is the very basic molecule of organic chemistry and by adding functional groups to the hydrocarbon we can manipulate the properties of the molecule. Through the manipulation of these organic compounds, organic chemistry can be used to chemically synthesise many products such as soaps,…

This experiment was conducted to practice a variety of techniques in organic chemistry: separation, mechanisms, acid-base reactions, evaporation, recrystallization, and identification. The goal of this experiment was to identify the unknown mixture of two compounds. The two compounds were separated first by altering the acid components solubility through deprotonation, and then protonating the acid component again to form the separated precipitate. The ether in the neutral layer was evaporated,…

During the Winter Quarter of 2018, I enrolled in CHEM1A at De Anza Community College to deepen my understanding of chemistry. Going into the class, I expected it to be similar to a high school class. However, I quickly discovered that it was quite different--it was literally and figuratively in a class of its own. There were a lot more advanced concepts taught in my CHEM1A course. At first, I was at a loss on how to study and adequately prepare for the class, given the volume of material and…

In Period 11 of lab, two experiments were conducted: one investigative and one preparative. Both experiments demonstrated the theory and concepts behind electrophilic aromatic substitution. As the term states, the experiments deal with the chemistry of six membered ring compounds and their transformations through electrophilic substitutions. This type of reaction transforms the aromatic compound by allowing various functional groups to be attached to it. The general process of this reaction is…

USING ICT IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION LOKENDRA KUMAR OJHA Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab ojha.lokendra@gmail.com Abstract There are several topics in chemistry which required computational technique to learn and use of ICT enhance learning capacity of learner as well as facilitator. The present article deals with the use of ICT in some of the topic of chemistry. We tried to overcome from routine chalk and talk method to understand the several topic viz. stereochemistries, IUPAC…

Dear Amma, How’s everyone doing? I’m having a lot of fun at school. My hardest class right now is probably my organic chemistry class. You remember the organic chemistry class that I took in high school? It’s a little like that, but definitely harder and more focused on real-world applications. The course actually includes a weekly three-hour lab with its own one-hour lecture. I think it’s a pretty great course because we learn techniques that are used in actual labs. Last week’s experiment…