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Retrosynthesis and Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
As we construct more complex organic molecules, it can start to feel like decrypting a complex code. Organic synthesis takes simple starting materials, and turns them into complex structures, and reverse engineering can help us figure...
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The Aldol and Claisen Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry is a great workout for your brain, and to keep its energy up, your brain needs glucose. To maintain blood glucose levels, our bodies go through a process called gluconeogenesis, which involves the important type of...
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Medicinal Chemistry and Penicillin Total Synthesis: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
These days, we don't have to worry too much about meeting an early demise from ulcers, breaks in the stomach lining that could be fatal back in the early 1900s. This is because we have medicines to treat them, like proton pump...
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Nomenclature - Crash Course Chemistry
Ever feel like there's a international team of bad guys changing all of the easily remembered chemical names and turning them into test-failing, number-infused, pain in the neck names? Well... you're not wrong. IUPAC exists but try to...
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Biochemical Building Blocks & Fischer and Haworth Projections: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Although we've spent a lot of time in this series looking at human-made organic chemicals, the term "organic chemistry" was originally used to describe molecules isolated from living things. In this episode of Crash Course Organic...
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How to Identify Molecules - Proton NMR: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
If you were given a chemical and told to identify it, how would you go about doing that? You could look at different factors like color, boiling point, melting point, or smell, but the answer still might not be clear. Thankfully, today...
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More Stereochemical Relationships - Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Enantiomers have almost all the same chemical and physical properties, so it can be tough to separate them. But it’s still super important that we know how to tell them apart! In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll...
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Carboxylic Acid Derivatives & Hydrolysis Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Esters have a wide range of uses, from giving perfumes and colognes their fragrances, to preventing diseases like scurvy. Vitamin C, that scurvy preventing antioxidant, is derived from carboxylic acids, a class of organic compounds we’ve...
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Carboxylic Acids: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
What do the smells of feet, armpits, vomit, and goats all have in common? (Besides being super gross…) Carboxylic acids! Despite being responsible for some of our least favorite odors, carboxylic acids are also super useful in organic...
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Alcohols, Ethers, and Epoxides: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
What comes to mind when you think of alcohol? Probably alcoholic drinks like beer or wine. But in organic chemistry alcohols are an important and versatile family of compounds. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll use...
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Carboxylic Acid Derivatives - Interconversion & Organometallics: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
We get it, learning so many different organic reactions is probably giving you a headache, but hopefully this episode can help! We’re getting even deeper into carboxylic acid derivatives, some of which are used in common headache...
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Polymers - Crash Course Chemistry
Did you know that Polymers save the lives of Elephants? Well, now you do! The world of Polymers is so amazingly integrated into our daily lives that we sometimes forget how amazing they are. Here, Hank talks about how they were developed...
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Esters and Perfumes
Esters occur in nature and have been harnessed by the perfume industry. What are esters and how are they made and used? Chemistry - Chemical Industries - Learning Points. Esters give many fruits their scents, including bananas, lavender...
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GCSE Chemistry - Esters #59
This video covers: - What esters are - How they're made from carboxylic acids and alcohols - Their properties Exam board specific info: AQA - Everything is relevant to your course! You only need to know the example of ethyl ethanoate....
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GCSE Chemistry - Condensation Polymers (Polyesters) #60
This video covers: - What condensation polymers are - How they're made from dicarboxylic acids and diols - How the monomers join together (ester bonds) - How to write the equations - Why condensation polymers are more biodegradable than...
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GCSE Chemistry - Carboxylic Acids #58
This video covers: - What carboxylic acids are - How to name them - How they act as weak acids and react with metal carbonates - How to make them from carbonates Exam board specific info: AQA - Everything is relevant to your course!...
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GCSE Chemistry - Alcohols #57
This video covers: - Alcohols are a homologous series of organic compounds with an OH functional group - How to name them - Their properties: flammable, soluble and they can be oxidised - Their uses: as fuels and solvents Exam board...
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Acids and Bases, pH and pOH
We've all heard the terms acid and base. What do these mean? Don't just tell me about pH, silly. What structural detail makes a molecule an acid or a base? You don't know? Well, you'd better watch this then. You don't want to be...
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Reactions of Beta-Dicarbonyl Compounds
Looking at the usage of beta-dicarbonyl compounds.
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The Haloform Reaction
Once again, we will be interested in learning about reactions that break carbon-carbon bonds, as this will allow us to perform necessary transformations on substrates. The haloform reaction is one such reaction, and it is commonly used...
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Diazomethane Synthesis and Applications (Arndt-Eistert Homologation)
In learning about carbenes, we discovered the importance of diazomethane. So it will be a good idea to learn how to make this molecule, as well as some other things we can do with it, including something called the Arndt-Eistert...
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Introduction to Reductions & Sodium Borohydride (Theory & Problems)
Introduction to Reductions & Sodium Borohydride (Theory & Problems)
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Alpha Oxidation of Branched-Chain FAs in Humans & Ruminants
In this video we discuss the following: [1] one major source of branched-chain fatty acids [2] the conversion of phytol to phytanoyl-CoA [3] alpha oxidation of phytanoyl-CoA
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Strong C-O Bond Oxidations with Jones Reagent & KMnO4
Strong C-O Bond Oxidations with Jones Reagent & KMnO4