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...
by Adrian | Sep 26, 2016 | Organic Chemistry
Honestly I’m not a fan of sharing student work in general (I think that sharing has limited value) however this is one of the rare occasions I like to. Because I am so fond of ChemSketch, I like my Introduction to Organic Chemistry students to have a go and...
by Adrian | Sep 12, 2016 | Organic Chemistry
At the start of the school year in August of 2015, I read a number of stories (for example, here, here and here) about fentanyl, a drug that was apparently taking a terrible toll across Canada. Several of the stories described those most affected as,...
by Adrian | May 18, 2016 | Nomenclature, Organic Chemistry
Organic nomenclature questions can start off so innocently, then before one knows it, one has wasted more time than a 16 year old on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat combined. It all started off so simply. Originally, someone other than me, asked if a phenyl...
