#ChemCoach : Online Organic Chemistry Tutor
For any readers who are interested in chemistry as a career, blogger SeeArrOhh of Just Like Cooking is running a blogging carnival called #ChemCoach where
Read moreIntroducing the Reaction Guide
My main goal at Master Organic Chemistry has always been to provide students with useful resources that they can’t easily find anywhere else. About six
Read moreThe latest version of Reagents contains a “social graph” for reactions
A new version of Reagents was released a few months ago, and it comes with two powerful new features that weren’t in the first version.
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I AM ANSWR REAL QWESSTONS PPL HAVE ABOUT ORGNIC CHMISTYR Q. Is there a difference between these two molecules? One has CH3 and the
Read moreBlog Carnival: What the Cope Rearrangement Taught Me About Chemistry
Note: to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011, there’s a blog carnival going on. This is my contribution. If you can’t follow the structural
Read more“Reagents”: A Pocket Encyclopedia 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
Read moreBook Review: “Arrow Pushing in Organic Chemistry” by Daniel E. Levy
One common refrain of educators (and others) who teach organic chemistry is “don’t memorize! understand what’s going on”. For someone who is new to studying
Read moreThe Lies We Tell
Zed Shaw teaches a course in writing Python called “Python the Hard Way“. Because the hard way is easier, he says. In the end, he’s
Read moreFalling in love with my writing tablet
Back when I was in Jerusalem I had this amazing little whiteboard that was the perfect size for me. During tutorial sessions I’d whip it
Read moreClass exercise: Come up with a synthesis for this illegal drug
A while ago I got the following letter from a concerned parent (lightly edited for length). I was shocked when my daughter came home from
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