Bowing to pressure from consumer products companies facing a growing public relations nightmare over chemical ingredients in food, the International Union of Pure and Applied
Read moreToday I’m delighted to announce a new book – Practice Organic Mechanisms, co-written with Dr. Michelle Sulikowski, Senior Lecturer of Organic Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. Practice Organic
Read moreWhat I Learned From A Massive Memorization Project This spring I had a weird obsession with birds. I ended up learning the names of all
Read moreWASHINGTON – In a speech at a black-tie meeting of the Periodic Table of the Elements last night, President Obama called on all atoms to share their
Read moreHey folks – it’s been awhile! Let me explain. It all started very innocently. In mid November I started noticing that a little bump I’d
Read moreSpecial to MOC from Variety HOLLYWOOD, CA – Mirimax Entertainment announced today that they are suing educational organic chemistry website Master Organic Chemistry for an
Read moreDo you ever study by making flashcards of reactions? You might recall that a few months ago Rich Apodaca (of Metamolecular) and myself released the
Read moreHere’s another great example of how one reagent used in a certain context performs one thing, and in a different context performs a completely different
Read moreThe other day while going through Claisen condensations with a student, we came upon this pretty typical problem: The student duly deprotonated the alpha carbon
Read moreNICOSIA, Cyprus – The banking crisis in Cyprus deepened over the weekend, as the Proton Bank, a lender with 31 branches in Greece and Cyprus,
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