All Organic chemistry articles
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ResourceThe chemistry of chemical weapons
In this activity you will look at the chemistry behind a number of chemical weapons that have been employed throughout history
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Essential chemistry of pharmaceuticals
Explore the role of chemistry in drug discovery with this worksheet
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Why you need A-level chemistry to study pharmacy
Why chemistry is essential to understand and manufacture safe, effective medicines
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Teaching organic mechanisms
How to help students get to grips with organic reaction mechanisms
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Reef-safe sunscreens
Nina Notman investigates the science behind UV-absorbing sunscreens and ‘reef-friendly’ formulations
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Exhibition chemistry
The glow stick reaction
Light up the classroom with this simple, safe and value-for-money demonstration of chemiluminescence
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Organic synthesis starters (16–18)
Challenge your students to recall the reagents, conditons and mechanism for various organic transformations to answer these Starter for ten questions.
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Compounds with amine groups starters (16–18)
Assess your students’ awareness of compounds with amines groups with a Starter for ten activity covering classifying amines and amides, properties of amines, amino acids among other amine subjects.
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Aromatic chemistry starters (16–18)
Use these Starter for ten questions to challenge your students to name aromatic compounds and recall the structure of benzene and electrophilic substitution mechanisms.
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Carbonyl chemistry starters (16–18)
Consolidate your students’ knowledge of the synthesis and reactions of carbonyl compounds using these Starter for ten questions.
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Organic chemistry starters (16–18)
Starter for ten questions covering some of the main aspects of organic chemistry at GCSE and A level, including functional groups, nomenclature, isomerism and mechanisms
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Organic chemistry: encouraging problem solving, not goal scoring
How less really is more when it comes to learning
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Asparagus pee
A video explaining that asparagus should be cooked in butter rather than water because the molecules responsible for its flavour are water-soluble, and a worksheet about the molecules responsible for ‘asparagus pee’.
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Chemists weave granny and triple trefoil knots
Giant molecules with a carbon backbone by synthetic chemistry
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The oxidation of cyclohexanol by nitric acid
Perform a ring opening oxidation using nitric acid to produce the dicarboxylic acid, 1,6-hexanedioic acid (adipic acid) – and then use the solid crystals that form to determine a melting point
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Brady's test for aldehydes and ketones
Explore the identification of aldehydes and ketones with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (Brady’s reagent)
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The chemical properties of hydroxybenzene
Observe and interpret some of the chemical reactions of hydroxybenzene (phenol) inside a plastic petri dish
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Unsaturation test with potassium manganate(VII)
Use a solution of potassium manganate(VII) in propanone to detect whether an organic compound is unsaturated
