All Organic chemistry articles – Page 10
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CPDOrganic chemistry: smelly and difficult?
How you can help your students avoid difficulties with organic chemistry
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Exhibition chemistry
Brilliant bubbles and disappearing dyes
Declan Fleming shows you how to capture your students’ imaginations with spectacular demonstrations
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Review
Advances in teaching organic chemistry
A variety of ideas that allow learners to develop the confidence and interest to overcome the challenges associated with understanding organic chemistry
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Exhibition chemistry
Cannon fire
Declan Fleming shows you how to capture your students’ imaginations with spectacular demonstrations
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Review
Chemistry3
This book introduces the three traditional areas of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. It is aimed at those in the first year of UK university chemistry courses.
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Resource
Chemistry Now: Combinatorial Chemistry
Combinatorial chemistry is a group of techniques for synthesising large arrays of related chemicals and is increasingly being used by pharmaceutical companies in their search for new drugs.
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Lesson plan
Chemistry masterclass
Undertake the work of a medicinal chemist by isolating an active compound. Includes kit list, safety instructions and session timings
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Resource
Natural dyeing
Collect natural dyes for learners to use in the classroom. Exploring how dyes and indicators change the colour of different cloths.
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Lesson plan
Organic molecules day
Students produce and analyse a simple aromatic compound using various analytical techniques. Includes kit list, safety instructions and suggested session plan
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Investigate Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Organic Reaction Mechanisms is a core component of organic chemistry at 16 to 19 level. It is covered in A-levels, Scottish Highers and International Baccalaureate but also in all undergraduate chemistry courses.
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ChemTube3D: Organic Chemistry Reactions
This site contains interactive 3D animations for some of the most important organic reactions covered during an undergraduate degree.
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The Mole
Trade secrets... Keeping fruit fresher for longer
Secrets of the trade: Jonathan Hare investigates how to stop his bananas from going off
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ChemTube3D: Organic Structure and Bonding
This site contains interactive 3D animations for some of the most important organic reactions and structures covered during an undergraduate degree.
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On This Day - Jan 23 : Otto Diels was born
He was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside his student, Kurt Alder, for the discovery and development of the cycloaddition synthesis known as the Diels-Alder reaction. This reaction is widely used in chemical synthesis.
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Faces of Chemistry – Hair colourant
Learn about the chemistry of hair dyes from Procter and Gamble scientists.
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Faces of Chemistry – Crop protection
Discover how crop protection products from Syngenta help to increase yield and produce healthier crops.
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Feature
It's not all about fuel
Biofineries produce heat, power and a plethora of useful 'platform chemicals'. Are they part of the solution to our renewable energy woes? Josh Howgego finds out
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On This Day - Apr 10 : Robert Woodward was born
He is best known for his syntheses of complex organic substances, such as the antimalarial drug quinine, and the steroids cholesterol and cortisone. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.
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The Mole
Sniffing out an explanation
It’s strange to think that no one knows exactly how smell works. Josh Howgego explains the chemistry behind the puzzle
