Why can we smell aromatic and cyclic compounds and why they are in rings instead of lines? Viewers learn about organic compounds, resonance, naming standards for aromatic compounds, common chemical reactions, and the many uses...

Sal works through a list of examples that demonstrate and review the different types of compound classification.

Sal works through a list of examples that demonstrate and review the different types of compound classification.

About 18 percent of the human body is carbon, yet carbon found in its pure form in nature forms graphite and diamonds, which are nonliving things. The narrator explores the word organic, explaining how its meaning in science has changed...

How does taking a drug designed to speed the body up calm a brain that's working too fast already? Health scholars examine the effects of Adderall and other amphetamine compounds using a video from the American Chemical Society's...

Your cell phone contains many elements you may not have even heard of! Explore the science of the smartphone with a lesson from the Reactions playlist. The instructor explains the location and purpose of the many different elements that...

Death becomes fungi because many are decomposers, breaking down dead organisms and returning nutrients to the soil. Explore the fascinating world of fungi, how they feed, the different types, and how they reproduce in a video that...

This video looks at pairs of molecules to see if they relate to each other in obvious or less than obvious ways, for example, by having the same molecular formula but different structures. The video looks at stereoisomers, enantiomers,...

There is a logical system in which to name carbon chains as described here. The naming system becomes more logical when there are more than five compounds in the chain. Understand the prefixes: iso-, sec- and tert-. [13:29]

In this video you will practice writing empirical formulas for many molecular formulas. In order to write the empirical formula, you find the largest number you can divide all of the subscripts by, to reduce it as much as possible. You...