Professor Dave Explains
Diazomethane Synthesis and Applications (Arndt-Eistert Homologation)
In learning about carbenes, we discovered the importance of diazomethane. So it will be a good idea to learn how to make this molecule, as well as some other things we can do with it, including something called the Arndt-Eistert...
Professor Dave Explains
Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
We just learned how to make lactams out of cyclic ketones, is there a similar way that we can make lactones? There is! Try the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation. This is another one of those rearrangement type of reactions, only this time we are...
Curated Video
Chemical Reactions Involving Metals: Oxidation, Reduction, and Redox Reactions
The video discusses common chemical reactions involving metals such as oxidation and reduction, the formation of positive ions, and redox reactions. It also shows the results of experiments where different metals react with water and...
Professor Dave Explains
Heterocycles Part 2: Pyridine
In the previous tutorial, we learned about some five-membered aromatic heterocycles. Those were furan, thiophene, and pyrrole. Now let's learn about a six-membered one, pyridine. This one is ubiquitous in nature, so let's get the scoop...
Professor Dave Explains
Pericyclic Reactions 3
Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part Three)
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Preparing Soluble Salts Using Acids and Alkalis through Titration Technique
The video explains how to prepare a soluble salt using acids and alkalis. The presenter explains the concept of titration and its importance in determining the exact amount of acid required to neutralize a base. Through the process of...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
Now that we've covered some basics regarding drug nomenclature, drug administration, and the ways they move through and interact with the body, it's time to dive into a survey of specific drugs so we can learn about as many as we can....
Professor Dave Explains
Assigning R/S on Fischer Projections
We've learned about stereochemistry and also how to assign absolute configuration (R/S) to stereocenters using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog convention. But some students are forced to learn all of this on dreaded Fischer projections. These are...
Mazz Media
Lab Safety: Safe Handling of Corrosive and Flammable Chemical Reagents
In this live-action program viewers will learn how to safely handle corrosive and flammable chemicals while in the science lab. Students will come to understand each chemical used in the lab must have a Material Safety Data Sheet, or...
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Understanding the pH Scale: Strong and Weak Acids, Acid Concentration, and pH Measurement
This video is an educational tutorial on the pH scale. The presenter goes over the difference between strong acids and weak acids and explains how they dissociate in an aqueous solution. They also cover acid concentration, which is...
Professor Dave Explains
Stereospecificity vs. Stereoselectivity and Regiospecificity vs. Regioselectivity
Many organic chemistry students think that specificity and selectivity are essentially synonymous when describing the potential products of a chemical reaction. But this is not true! They have separate meanings and imply different...
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Reactions of Metals with Oxygen, Acids and Water
This video explains the three main types of reactions that metals undergo: reactions with oxygen, reactions with acids, and reactions with water. The video provides word equations and examples of each type of reaction and notes any...
Curated Video
Understanding Strong and Weak Acids, Acid Concentration and the pH Scale
This is a science lesson on strong and weak acids. The presenter explains the differences between strong and weak acids, their ionization levels, and their effect on acid concentration. The video also covers the pH scale and how it...
Visual Learning Systems
Food and Digestion: Journey Through the Digestive Tract
Every day we eat a wide variety of food to provide the body with the energy it needs. All food is not the same and contains different types of nutrients. This series of programs explores the six major groups of nutrients....
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Uses of Hydrogen Chloride
It talks about preparation, properties & structure of HCl, oxoacids of halogens & interhalogen compounds. It gives introduction of group 18 elements & their occurrence.
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Lab Safety: Correct Disposal and Clean Up
In this live-action program viewers will learn that many experiments involve use of hazardous chemicals, such as strong acids, alkalis, or flammable materials and that all good scientists learn the correct methods for cleanup and...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Debunking the Myth of Zombies
In this video, the teacher explains why zombies are impossible by examining the stages of death and the decomposition process in the human body. They discuss the effects of rigor mortis, lack of oxygen to the brain, and the breakdown of...
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Barium Meals - Why Are They Useful?
Learn the basics about Barium meals, and why they are useful, as part of the uses of salts topic within acids and bases.
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Reactions of Acids and Metals: Predicting Products and Ionic Equations
This is a video discussing the reactions of acids and metals, and deriving the associated ionic equations. The video covers how different acids produce different salts when reacting with metals, and how to predict the resulting salt....
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Neutralization and Salt Production Reactions Explained
The video is a lecture presentation on the topic of neutralization and salt production. The presenter discusses the reactions between acids and bases, and demonstrates examples of reactions between different types of acids and bases,...
Professor Dave Explains
Natural vs. Synthetic Vitamins
Anti-science mentality is prevalent in modern society. This is evidenced most clearly in a complete distrust of chemicals synthesized in a laboratory. But does the activity of a molecule depend whatsoever on the pathway from which it...
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Chemical Properties of Acid and Base
It explains acids and bases in a laboratory. It explains reaction of acids and bases with metals, metal carbonates and metal hydrogen carbonates.
Professor Dave Explains
Carbenes Part 1: Properties and Formation
We've learned about a variety of different unstable carbon species, like carbocations, carbanions, and carbon radicals. But there is one more to know, carbenes. These are carbon atoms with two bonds and two nonbonding electrons. They...