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Overview or Oxidation Reactions in OCHEM
Overview or Oxidation Reactions in OCHEM
Weird History
What Life Was Like While Working on the Manhattan Project
What was it like to live at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project? As thousands worked to build a top-secret atomic device, the US military tried to keep the entire city secret. All mail was screened and sent through a fake address at...
Mazz Media
Let's Talk About: Alcohol
This program presents information about the use and abuse of alcohol and how it affects a person’s body and brain. Designed specifically for young learners, the program provides students with simple illustrations of how alcohol can...
Curated Video
The Importance and Resurgence of Barley
In this video, we explore the fascinating history and significance of barley. We learn about how this grain played important roles in various native and early cultures, and how it managed to survive and thrive throughout centuries. We...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Synthetic Strategy
We've got starting material and we've got a target molecule, and we've gotta figure out how to make the transformation in just two steps. Sift through that bag of synthetic tricks!
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Grignard Reactions
Grignards are all over the place! Better make sure we can draw the correct products of Grignard reactions. Try these for practice.
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Four-Reaction Pathway
We are starting with benzene, we do four reactions, and what do we get? See if you can get the right answer!
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Oxidizing Agents
For this one we need to know the ability of different oxidizing agents to react with various functional groups, and what functional groups will result.
Curated Video
JavaScript Conditionals
Every coding language needs a way of making decisions. It is conditional statements that allow code to make decisions. Mark demonstrates in this video
The Guardian
Fighting addiction on Pine Ridge reservation
Whiteclay, Nebraska is a tiny unincorporated town that sits on the border with South Dakota. Until its closure by state officials, its four liquor stores sold more than 4m cans of beer a year, almost entirely to members of Lakota Sioux...
Catalyst University
Aldehyde Dehydrogenase: Physiology. Biochemistry, and Mechanism
Aldehyde Dehydrogenase: Physiology. Biochemistry, and Mechanism
Curated Video
British Bitesize Lesson #17: STRAIGHT
My gift to you this Christmas is 25 British Bitesize Lessons. Lesson #17 is about the word STRAIGHT.
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: IUPAC Nomenclature Examples
Let's name these bad boys! Watch tutorials 1 through 5 on the organic chemistry playlist if you need a refresher of the rules.
Professor Dave Explains
Simple Distillation
We just learned two separation techniques, so let's learn one more! Distillation separates compounds by virtue of their differing boiling points. If two liquids are miscible, we can't perform extraction, but if they have very different...
Professor Dave Explains
Organolithium Reagents
We've seen one organometallic reagent before, the Grignard reagent. That had magnesium in it. Well now let's learn another! Organolithium reagents are commonly used, so let's see what they do.
Curated Video
British Bitesize Lesson #7: ALCOHOLIC, CHOCOHOLIC, SHOPAHOLIC, WORKAHOLIC
My gift to you this Christmas is 25 British Bitesize Lessons. Lesson #7 is about the words ending in HOLIC.
The Guardian
Steroids, syringes and stigma: the quest for the perfect male six-packs
In the search for a quick route to a muscular physique, many young men turn to controversial anabolic steroids to achieve their goals. But in the wake of deaths in the bodybuilding community, do the statistics showing a fourfold increase...
TLDR News
Why the Tory Spending Scandal Failed
On Monday, Labour tried to embroil the Conservatives in a scandal over Government Procurement Cards and what they perceived as unnecessary spending. But has Starmer levelled a major blow against the Tories? Or will this just get lost in...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Retrosynthesis of an Alcohol
For this one we need to understand the key points of retrosynthetic analysis. What reactions make alcohols? How can we put this molecule together?
Curated Video
How Are Water And Other Fluids Digested In The Human Body?
Water is a simple molecule, so our body does not have to break it into smaller, simpler molecules to digest it. In fact, water molecules are so small that they have no problem diffusing through the cell membrane. This cell membrane...
Food Farmer Earth
The World of Distilled Spirits
Yeast never sleeps," said Sebastian Degens. Which is a good thing, since Degens and his wife, Erika, depend on it to ferment the fruit and grain mashes they distill at their Stone Barn Brandyworks in Portland, Oregon.
Food Farmer Earth
What the Heck is Mead?
Awhile ago I was on a personal quest to find out about mead. Locally, I began to see tastings and classes pop-up. I knew it was an ancient beverage made from honey - but what did it really taste like? Was it as sugary sweet as drinking...