🧵 /cg/ - Chemistry General
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Apr 2024 05:51:05 UTC No. 16108859
Time to revive /cg/
>HOW DO I LEARN IT?
Oxtoby. Principles of Modern Chemistry
Wade, Clayden: organic
Voet, Voet. Biochemistry
McQuarrie for physical chemistry or Anslyn's Modern Physical Organic Chemistry
Landau, Lifshitz. Statistical Physics, Part I and II, Theory of Elasticity, Physical Kinetics
Meissler. Inorganic Chemistry
Fleming. Frontier Orbitals
Silverstein. Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds
Cotton. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Smythe. Static and Dynamic Electricity
Greene. Protecting Groups in Organic Synthesis
Vogel. Practical Organic Chemistry
Odian. Principles of Polymerization
Rubinstein. Polymer Physics
The Francis and Carey texts, 1 & 2
Crabtree's organometallic book
lecture contents & research papers published by Springer Nature & Elsevier
Theoretical Chemistry: springer.com/series/10920/books
Quantum Chemistry: springer.com/series/676/books
History: springer.com/series/10127/books
Topics in current chemistry: springer.com/series/128/books
Lecture notes: springer.com/series/632/books
******Please expand this list with more books/links/recommendations/etc.***
>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 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
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Apr 2024 06:30:14 UTC No. 16108907
>like chemistry
>hate lab work and inhaling toxic gases
What should I do
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Apr 2024 12:43:37 UTC No. 16109213
>>16108859
Based new general
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Apr 2024 13:55:04 UTC No. 16109280
i am a future doctor and i want to understand the concepts. how do i start? i want to self study
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:17:28 UTC No. 16109388
redpill me on doing the birch reduction in your bathroom, how retarded is it on a 1-10 scale? what if the person who does it opens the window?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Apr 2024 17:38:49 UTC No. 16109458
>>16109388
sounds pretty fucking retarded. you should do it and also record it so we get some nice instructional footage
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Apr 2024 06:32:21 UTC No. 16110237
>>16109388
I think you'll be fine
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Apr 2024 09:22:34 UTC No. 16110396
thoughts on mathematical chemistry
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Apr 2024 03:02:55 UTC No. 16111522
Barely legal newfag who's looking to crack plastics in his HS lab(chemistry teachers like me and have all but confirmed they would let me do it if given a decent write-up). The temperatures are not an issue(hotplates just barely being able to make it to 550ºC though I'll have to give up hopes of calcining some catalysts with that limitation) though it's that damned Helium gas that's the issue. Any retarded solutions that I'm missing because retarded?