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>HOW DO I LEARN CHEMISTRY?
Oxtoby - Principles of Modern Chemistry
Wade or Clayden for organic
Voet and Voet - Biochemistry
McQuarrie for physical chemistry or Anslyn's Modern Physical Organic Chemistry
Landau & Lifshitz's - Statistical Physics, Part I and II, Theory of Elasticity, and Physical Kinetics
Meissler's - Inorganic Chemistry
Fleming's "Frontier Orbitals"
Silverstein's "Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds"
Cotton's "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry"
Smythe's Static and Dynamic Electricity
Greene's "Protecting Groups in Organic Synthesis"
Vogel's "Practical Organic Chemistry"
Odian's "Principles of Polymerization"
Rubinstein's "Polymer Physics"
The Francis and Carey texts parts 1 and 2
Crabtree's organometallic book
lecture contents and research papers published by Springer Nature and Elsevier
TMC: springer.com/series/10920/books
Quantum Chemistry: springer.com/series/676/books
History: springer.com/series/10127/books
springer.com/series/128/books
springer.com/series/632/books
**********Please expand this list with more books/links/recommendations/etc.**********

>Guys I'm a future doctor taking organic next year. Tell me how to get a good grade!
Just make sure you memorize everything. Don't bother trying to understand the concepts, that's a waste of time and is meant for actual chemistry students who'll need it later on. It's a lot easier if you just brute force your way through it and memorize all the mechanisms.

>I'm a pissant undergrad, how do I into synthesis research?
Go walk up to a professor and tell them you want to work in their lab. Most are glad to take on a new student, provided you aren't completely retarded - you're basically free labor. Note that if your school has a lot of future doctors then you might have to compete with them on grades, some of them might also be bumming the prof so they could pad up their applications. Also, note that if you're at a big fancy school you're gonna need good grades regardless bud

>> No.14751452

Do you ever think about the God-like aspect of synthetic chemistry? You make something that probably hasn't ever existed in the universe, with your own skill and mind.
Even if it's just a small pile of powder of questionable importance, it was brought to existence only by your will. It is a new substance that has its own fingerprint and can be characterized only as itself.

>> No.14752952

>>14751140
good thread that should have way more replies

>> No.14754229

Can compounds with multiple phenol moieties be deprotonated by ammonia? I'm starting to lose my mind in the lab.

>> No.14755202

thanks for the reading list. Its helpful.
also have a bump.

>> No.14755633

>>14751452
i feel the same way every time i take a shit

>> No.14757926

why does this board hate chemistry so much? Every single time

>> No.14758117

>>14757926
it's a science for women

>> No.14758265

>>14757926
this thread is unpopular because you are too low iq to make the kind of posts which would make the thread popular. if you had a high enough iq to figure out where you're making the mistakes then you would be currently observing a very popular thread.

>> No.14758483

>>14758117

So the only sciences for men are CS, Math, and Physics?

>> No.14759746

>>14758117
That's biology. Chemistry is for fags.
>>14758265
No it's because the majority on this board are into math, physics, engineering, CS and sensationalist shit

>> No.14761061

>>14751140
Wish this thread had more replies but no all the attention goes to math and physics focused threads

>> No.14761068

>>14754229
It's a matter of how acidic your phenol is, that should tell you if the equilibrium is favored towards deprotonation. Depends on the substituents on the phenol.

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14761355

>be me
>innalab
>working with bromine
>on that bromine grindset
>i end up with a solution containing bromine
>it has to be disposed of
>the internal flowchart immediately kicks in
>is it an organic substance?
>no
>does it contain heavy metals?
>no
>is there anything in it that can cause an environmental disaster if you poured it down the drain?
>no
>DOWN THE DRAIN IT GOES
>lab immediately starts smelling like a swimming pool X1000
>friend who works next to me goes "OH HOLY SHIT ANON DO YOU SMELL THAT?"
WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO I CANT JUST POUR IT INTO SOME CONTAINER, I HAD TO GET RID OF IT
REEEEEEE I HATE BROMINE

>> No.14761413

>>14761355
dumb phoneposter

>> No.14762603

>>14761355
Fucking retard just quench it with some metabisulfite.

>> No.14763777

>>14761355
pretty much any reducing agent would have worked

>> No.14766257

>>14759746
chemistry is a broad fucking field, and work projects tend to be shrouded in secrecy. Either bring up something interesting to talk about or give up.

What's the best way to make sodium at home? molten salt electrolysis? has anyone tried nurdrage's method yet?