Organic Chemistry and Medicine go Hand in Hand
Many students ask, “What is the point of organic chemistry?” Well, there are many areas of life that organic chemistry plays a huge role. Here is just one of those examples:
Brief Video Description:
This is an introductory lecture to the class (Organic Chemistry and Medicine) that I am currently putting together. It should give you a good idea of how the lectures will be taught and the overall format. I discovered that giving a live lecture is much different than a recorded one (you have the ability watch the errors you made in the recorded version). After I put the slides together, I immediately sat down and recorded the lecture (without any practice or knowing what I was going to say). Therefore, I have a couple of things I want to point out that I feel needed to be addressed.
In slide 19:
I mention thinking about the last reaction as a collapse of a tetrahedral intermediate. Well, I would not think of it that way…..bad idea on my part. It is actually a tautomerization.
It is just like a keto-enol tautomeriaztion, shown above. Whew!….I feel much better about that now.
The second thing I wanted to point out was on slide 20:
I meant to say NH group at 3200 cm-1, not 20 ppm.
On slide 23, it should have shown an NH on the last structure on the top and on the structure in the middle.
Also, I was disappointed by the quality of the slides in the video. You can get all the lecture slides below as a PDF. I think I know how to fix the problem for next time.
Organic Chemistry and Medicine Intro Lecture (Slides)
Whew!!…hopefully you all will not hold these errors against me 🙂