[HN Gopher] Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
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       Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
        
       Author : mahami
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2021-09-16 05:11 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.chem.ucla.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.chem.ucla.edu)
        
       | greenyoda wrote:
       | Home page of this glossary:
       | http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~harding/IGOC/IGOC.html
        
       | bsedlm wrote:
       | I wish somebody would analyze all these symbols from the
       | perspective of formal languages.
        
       | nknealk wrote:
       | Dr. Hardinger at UCLA teaches the intro organic chemistry courses
       | for essentially anyone graduating in science. His lectures
       | regularly exceeded enrollment of 1000 people per quarter when I
       | was there in 2009.
       | 
       | Dr. Hardinger also wrote his own text books. He'd charge $35ish
       | for them through the university publisher instead of making us
       | buy much more expensive professionally published text books. I
       | personally thought they were well written and his problem sets
       | and worked explanations were clear and concise. All in all a
       | great professor.
        
       | pomian wrote:
       | This is cool. Like those huge chemistry reference books that we
       | had on our desks, that weighed about 20lbs! Just more portable.
        
       | supernova87a wrote:
       | I would love if there were an illustration of how to understand
       | organic chemistry as not a collection of endless "rules" that yet
       | have annoying exceptions, and tables and tables of pKas that mean
       | you just have to remember that something does what it does,
       | "because".
        
         | jamesash wrote:
         | I have been working on this site for 11 years, has 400 free
         | articles on intro organic chemistry:
         | https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com Probably the most fun
         | thing I ever did was breaking down the mechanisms of 25-30
         | reactions into individual steps, and then assigning a musical
         | note to each step. Playing the sequence of notes helps you
         | recognize the patterns behind the reactions. One pattern in
         | particular (protonation-carbonyl addition-deprotonation-
         | protonation-elimination-deprotonation, or PADPED) covers the
         | mechanism of at least 8 superficially different reactions.
         | Another great organic chemistry resource:
         | https://organicchemistrydata.org/hansreich/resources/pka/#pk...
        
           | supernova87a wrote:
           | Thank you! I will have a look.
        
         | HPsquared wrote:
         | That's the problem with chemistry though, a lot of it is "just
         | because". We only have certain numbers to work with. The Lego
         | set of organic chemistry only contains so many pieces.
        
           | cogburnd02 wrote:
           | Wait there's a LEGO SET!?!?
           | 
           | Oh, wait, you probably meant that as a metaphor, didn't you?
        
       | fastssd wrote:
       | Thanks, this is something I needed but was too lazy to search
       | for. Perfect for quick lookups
        
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