Biochemistry is the combination of majoring in biology and chemistry. As a biochemistry major you will take more classes related to chemistry until your 3rd and 4th year where you can choose electives in biology or...

So far we've learned a lot about general chemistry and organic chemistry, so let's move into inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry. In this series we will investigate all the elements on the periodic table that were ignored in...

The video is a lecture on organic chemistry, introducing key concepts such as hydrocarbons, functional groups, homologous series, and isomerism. The speaker explains how organic molecules can be represented in different ways, using...

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...

CYP2E1 Mechanism: Oxidation of Ethanol to Acetaldehyde

A great era of exploration of the icy moons is about to begin. Athena Coustenis of the Paris Observatory talks about missions to the icy moons of the outer solar system and international collaborations with NASA and ESA.

University of Southern California chemistry graduate student Candy Hwang won second prize and the People's Choice Award in a December 2012 video contest sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), "Creating the...

Entropy (Part 2/4)

Urate Oxidase and Urate (Part 1): Physiology, Biochemistry, and Mechanism

Dopachrome Tautomerase: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Mechanism

Aconitase 1

It's time to check out Group 14 on the periodic table, the carbon group. This includes carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's find out!

Grignard Reactions: Theory & Practice with Strategy

Oxymercuration/Demurcuration: Theory, Mechanism, and Examples

Entropy (Part 1/4)

Lysozyme Mechanism

Dan Skovronsky, President of Lilly Research Laboratories and Chief Scientific Officer for Eli Lilly and Company gives us a peek into the drug discovery and development process specifically focused on Alzheimer's detection and research.

Markovnikov versus Anti-Markovnikov Additions

You may have heard that carbon is the element of life. What does that mean? Let's find out!

Learn the basics about Formula of organic molecules. What is a chemical formula? How do you draw a formula of organic molecules? Find out more in this video!

Halohydrin Formation: Theory, Mechanism, Examples

Hydroboration/Oxidation: Theory and Examples

What's with this hierarchy? Primary, secondary, tertiary... can't all carbons be equal? Well, no. We need to be able to label the degree of substitution of any carbon in an organic molecule so that we can make predictions about the...

We learned about how pairs of protons can have specific relationships. They can be homotopic, enantiotopic, diastereotopic, or heterotopic. Let's apply this to some examples!