Organic chemistry can feel overwhelming, but with the right mindset, study habits, and tools, it becomes much more approachable. Combining conceptual mastery with active learning and carefully chosen ...

Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton’s laws of motion, anyone?). Chemists are no different. They’ve been naming ...

This course focuses on recent trends and developments in the design and reactivity of organic compounds. It will introduce how a knowledge of organic reactions and mechanisms can be used to synthesise ...

Organic chemistry is often misunderstood as a subject that demands endless memorisation of reactions, reagents, and experimental conditions. Students frequently express their frustration by saying, ...

Organic chemistry is one of the most notoriously difficult classes on campus according to many students. On top of being strenuous, the class is considered to have little relevance to real-world ...

Students of organic chemistry will probably appreciate the casual style of this educational app, which includes humorous references and mnemonics (and even a chemistry humor section). While not the ...

From the 1960s to the 1980s, physical organic chemists fought over the structures of the 2-norbornyl cation and similar ions. The controversy started as a disagreement between two major players in the ...

Jian Jiang's team at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently published an article that focuses on the core bottlenecks of ...