by Adrian | Jan 2, 2018 | Anthem Perspectives In Chemistry: Organic Reactions & Applications, Organic Chemistry
You can read more about the origin of this post, here. When it comes to nomenclature, organic chemistry is notoriously full of contradictions, historical accidents and anomalies. It is often very messy! I quite often write about this, for example, here and here. For a...
by Adrian | Nov 28, 2017 | Anthem Perspectives In Chemistry: Organic Reactions & Applications, Organic Chemistry
A few years ago, I spent a couple of years writing an organic chemistry textbook of sorts. I say ‘of sorts’, since it was aimed at a high school audience, so to call it a ‘textbook’ seems a little grandiose to say the least. If I’m...
