The subject is quite easy, the students struggle at it because of the limited time they get to absorb all the new information.

@grannyspeachtea7764

5 жыл бұрын

Like memorise C(n) H(2n+1)?I don't even remember it correctly

@Lostpanda123

5 жыл бұрын

another reason why so many struggle, they memorize instead of learning the topics...

@grannyspeachtea7764

5 жыл бұрын

Uhuh? How do you learn a formula without memorising it? The very definition of a formula is = don't break your head as to how the calculation came to be. And to clarify, I'm a person who dropped out of college because my education system was presupposed to memorising stuff and I absolutely didn't want to study that way. Now I'm self taught.

@DjiboutiBShowin

5 жыл бұрын

No calculators needed in organic chemistry, unlike gen chem. If you're a visual learner and/or like to draw, orgo has the potential to be both fun & enlightening. Best science class(es) I took in college by far

@Quintinohthree

5 жыл бұрын

@@grannyspeachtea7764 See, there's your problem. You do need to understand formulas. If you understand that CnH2n+2 comes about from H-(CH2)n-H, then you will never forget it. Better yet, you will never need to learn that formula because you can derive it in no time.

He was one of the better speakers I've heard on TED. Really good use of tone, fantastic way of summarizing literally the most complex topic that exists.

Fascinating! I love these talks that introduce us to complex subjects in such a way that we can become interested in learning more. Thank you!

@jenniejackson9297

5 жыл бұрын

Mike

@rockybalboa4038

2 жыл бұрын

@@jenniejackson9297 Prison

This was my Favorite Course in my college years. I learned so much, and it shapes my perspective on things today. Outstanding talk!

If you were the only Organic Chemistry teacher, then everyone would love organic chemistry. Sure it's a difficult subject but a good teacher makes things easy. I failed general chemistry twice, spectacularly. Third time I had an amazing teacher who gave us real life examples of all the reactions. I got an A in the lab and a B in the class. We need more passionate, excellent teachers !!!

Beautiful presentation. But i still cry after every organic chemistry lecture 😂

@hersikolog2286

5 жыл бұрын

Alihan Türk 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

@pcuimac

5 жыл бұрын

Alihan Türk Beautiful things can still be hard.

@metanumia

5 жыл бұрын

It might be due to some stray Syn-Propanethial-S-Oxide smeared on your classroom desk! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide

@Callmeromain2016

5 жыл бұрын

Same 😢😢😫

@krystalphan8871

4 жыл бұрын

me too!!! Especially the fking hard program that my fking country designed!

Awesome... I was just waiting for a ted talk on organic chemistry to be delivered, because I am an undergraduate student, and wherever I go, I find people looking and underestimating this science with the same disregard as you rightly mentioned. A few times I tried my self to convince them about the importance of this science, but I don't think my convincing strengths are that strong. I am going to recommend this video to all whom I find unconvinced. Again, great talk Sir!

This was great to see in person! Thanks for finally uploading it!

Nicely done, thank you. I am so thankful for our local community colleges, and contributions like yours.

Everyone can notice how nervous he was from his voice but he preformed perfectly

I actually learned something from this for my upcoming study in chemistry. Wow

This video, this man, everything in it is great! It was so awesome and so much fun for really anyone, someone who like topics like that or not really. Congrats ❤️

This introduction is like narrowing down an iron bar into an iron needle step by step in a nice manner, with occasionally elaboration on the excluded iron debris and comparison of it with other debris from other production. That hand shake and hand grip analogy is also nice.

I could listen to him do this all day, fascinating

The way he presents and talks about organic chem with fascination and excitement in his voice makes me want him as a professor.

Dang, that was a good presentation. The graphics made a big difference. Thanks for giving credit to the guy who did them. You two both did a great job.

Tips from someone who got an A in orgo 1 and am now taking orgo 2: orgo 2 is so far identical to orgo 1; it’s mainly synthesis (predicting products)... also, this will be for a class that is taken on MWF, not TTu... you should read every chapter before the lectures. If I were you, in the morning, watch the lectures for the day (or attend lecture), and take notes. Good notes. And that’s all. The next day, do the practice problems even if they aren’t assigned and attempt to understand the material. You have to work on orgo five days a week and honestly one or two days on the weekend. It is very time consuming but 100% not difficult. It’s just a TON TON TON of information, and that’s what makes it hard. Especially when you get to the final. My orgo 2 final this semester is 40% of my grade and I’m nervous, but that’s why you take good notes... good notes including writing the main mechanisms you learn, writing down tough nomenclature (naming molecules), and just doing practice problems. PRACTICE PROBLEMS ARE THE BEST WAY TO SUCCEED in orgo!!!!!! Can’t stress that enough. Pls reply if you have questions, I’d love to answer them :)))

Ted has blessed us yet again

More of these talks please. This is good old TED quality.

Definitely showing my students this in September. Thank you.

Thanks so much for the explanation, sir 🙏🏻 love the way it's delivered.

One of the best ted talks and most important. How much better would we be off as a society if people didn’t let fear mongering of “chemical” or “synthetic” or “pharmaceutical industry” get in the way of them educating themselves.

One of my favorite classes. 1 and 2... I had an excellent teacher. He was a baker. Don't remember any of it...except that I love d it! I wish I had pursued it more.

What a great and inspirational speaker!

This video makes me love and know more about organic chemistry. I will try my best to learn it.

5:20 HONC HONC

As someone who has started to specialize in orgo for my research I definitely agree that there is a lot to love about the subject outside the horrors of the class. It really has to be hard for you to learn the volume of material, but you have that knowledge the application of it can be incredibly fun and interesting.

@unf3z4nt

5 жыл бұрын

Adam G. I would love to see the face of the layperson the moment the topics gets to molecular orbitals.

This is one of the best video I've ever seen about chemistry! :)

Gr8 video sir..this subject was boring n tough during school days..wish we had a teacher like u back then..

Wow. I really liked how this was done. Fun overview of an otherwise intimidating subject. So good.

@triple_gem_shining

9 ай бұрын

Only thing intimidating about it is the refractive index of your bald head

Great explanations. I learned something new today.

"Finally a video that's just about science without anything even tangentially political in it!" *one-tenth as many views, flat-earthers show up to complain anyway*

@akshatprakash871

5 жыл бұрын

Also one calling him a pharma stooge

@Anthony-jt2kh

5 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry but there are plenty of channels on KZread already made for solely science, and other countless platforms for study. TED is about showing us new ideas, and to look into things that change what we already know about reality.

@gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805

5 жыл бұрын

As of the time i posted this, there are only two comments even remotely political here, and one is yours.

@blue_tetris

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't say there'd be a bunch of political statements here. I don't shy away from political discussions and no one should be downvoting all TED's videos willing to discuss those subject matters. What I'm saying is that these comments' sections have many people who claim to hate politics and love science; however, the view count for a video like this tends to wind up incredibly low. As it turns out, the people who spam TED videos just hate a certain kind of scientific inquiry that yields facts they don't like.

I didn't do uni organic chem. But I did do it at a level chemisty. I hated it for the first year, but then I started to understand it a little in the second and I started to love it. It was kind of like doing maths, scratching an itch or gently stretching.

Organic chemistry is so interesting. We are run by this. And we have to pay attention to the influence of quantum mechanics on the fundamental processes, such as Krebs cycle and photosintesys. Fascinating, even if I'm not a biologyst.

Didn't expect to love this but I really do

I really enjoyed this! TY!

Thanks a lot for your talk, Jakob Magolan!

...amazing talk! thank you

Awesome video. Thank you

My favourite subject before medschool.

"At this scale, math practically *touches* reality". That's a beautiful description!

nice video! I actually kinda messed up with organic chemistry in high school but he showed me organic chemistry in a simple way w o w

I loved organic chem, I had some great teachers

I wish I had a teacher like you when I studied Pharceutical Sciences

THANK YOU !

Beautiful, simply beautiful

Organic Chemistry courses were my favorite ones in college. =)

I loved orgo. was told once that it's like being given the answer to a riddle and trying to figure out the original riddle.

Wonderful!

To all of you considering this class. Do not underestimate it.. It's quite challenging. around half will drop the class. Hard work ethic, can-do attitude and dogged persistence should get you through. Some rather late nights as well. Although, it feels rather rewarding once completed

Thanks!

Very interesting.. Thx a lot

Your audience cant stop coughing.

@FTLNewsFeed

5 жыл бұрын

Coughing is men's way of crying.

@FTLNewsFeed

5 жыл бұрын

Coughing is men's way of crying.

@chuckyb.hollow8381

3 жыл бұрын

coughing mc cougherson needs to stfu unwatchable

@triple_gem_shining

8 ай бұрын

cough is mens way of crying 🤡

Good lecture for the general public.

If I had o-chem explained to me like this when I was at school (20-odd years ago), I would have been a confident person.

excelente video!!!!!

Beautiful.

Loved it😍💓

It has everything to do with the type of professor you had for Orgo. They could make or break your whole perception of the subject!

@triple_gem_shining

8 ай бұрын

And you're own ambition. Can you imagine some people learn this stuff for fun? Because of REAL interest? 😂

@athickie

8 ай бұрын

@@triple_gem_shining 😂🤣 yeah I can’t relate them at all I hated OC w/a passion 😭

i toke general chemistry over 14 years ago and still remember most of it.

Oh, so I was weeded out because I couldn't pass this course not because I was always lit. Ted Ed never fails to teach me something new.

Aye taking chem this fall.

@jesspalko2622

5 жыл бұрын

Make the best of it. You will miss it when it's gone. I sure do.

very good talk

Awesome Video, damn good job!!!

Brilliant!

Awesome!!

Hey can you make vids from basic to advance level.orgaic chemistry so that everyone in this world would appreciate beauty of organic chemistry

Finally! I start to get a handle on it.

AMAZING

Dude, that was awesome. I feel much better prepared for Organic Chemistry now.

@curts5508

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck. Don't underestimate it. It's a LOT of material in a very short time. It breaks a lot of people. The first class my Dr professor stated 50% would eventually drop the class. her math was solid. lol

@wombatpandaa9774

3 жыл бұрын

@@curts5508 dang, that's intense...funny thing is, in the 2 years since I made that comment, I still haven't take org, and because I chose to switch from health to tech, I probably never will 😂 might be just as well

amazing

I actually enjoyed this.....

sir you are amazing

I’m still afraid of organic chemistry, but not quite as much as before. Great vid

The video is stunning😍

Excellent

It's nice thanks

Even though I am a pretty nursing student almost to apply to nursing school, I can understand when you talk about epinephrine. Omg.

I LOVE SCIENCE and especially biochemistry

What a wholesome video

Thanks

My mother had a condition technically a cancer called marginal T-zone lymphoma. Her cells were evaluated by a Stanford U. lab, her oncologist was Harvard-trained, not that either alone would have told me anything, just glad two different institutions were represented. For treatment, 100% of my mother’s B cells were replaced by a NEW drug at that time consisting in synthetic B cells, a literal B-cell transfusion, before her marginally-affected T cells, where her T cells had sustained marginal damage, were treated with a different chemo for twelve weeks. That was fifteen years ago, and never a recurrence of lymphoma. My mother is 92-years-old this year, and still relatively healthy.

engaging speaker

Does anyone know what graphic program is used? I want to learn that.

@maniacalbarbarian

5 жыл бұрын

Came to comments to find out the same ...

@erikmjelde4428

5 жыл бұрын

There is a free one called blender or you could check out 3ds max, maya, or the plenty of other 3d tools available.

@TheWWDproductions

5 жыл бұрын

I used Lightwave3D. www.lightwave3d.com/. I'd highly recommend blender though.

@grannyspeachtea7764

5 жыл бұрын

Wes Durlan - You want to suggest Lightwave to someone who wants to know what "graphic" program was used?

@TheWWDproductions

5 жыл бұрын

grannyspeachtea yes that’s what I used to make the graphics you saw in this talk.

Wow!!

Would be interesting to hear what is the state of the art in organic chemistry these days. What kind of magic can you do in 2018?

wow never thought organic chemistry this way

I took O Chem with the "hardest" chemistry professor in the school and it was honestly way easier for me than Gen Chem 1 and 2.

Organic chemistry is way more fun than general chemistry it is still very challenging but definitely something to take if you can

Can You Use a STM, to see the atoms of Epinephrine?

Interesting talk. I like how you pointed out that it is impossible to synthesize complex molecules. Surely when it comes to bee stings, it is best to have a good diet and lifestyle that improves your adrenal health and does not deplete it, because with depleted adrenal glands, your body will be less likely to naturally react to bee stings. You would need the synthetic adrenal medicine. Also when it comes to food, Genetically modified food it inherently not the same as food that has not had synthetic genetic modification. Typically the modification involves the addition of H1N1 Ecoli because roundup will kill everything other than that. Is that added level of Ecoli in our diets beneficial? Somehow I doubt it.

@benwalton6412

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think he said "impossible to synthesize complex molecules" cost-effectively comes to mind as is one of the great limiting agents, some I am sure we couldn't but there are many complex molecules that we do synthesize. Some people are unfortunately allergic to the sting of a bee no matter how fit, varied, or healthy their diet and lifestyle is. Skepticism in the modern world these days is always needed and questions about what is being placed in food by large profit-driven companies should always be questioned and scrutinized as consumers' health and company profit are often at loggerheads. It was a nice vid to break down the basics of OG as you could share with people who have no knowledge on the subject simply for the ease of knowledge contained. Keep up the scrutiny, watch out for your straw man, and check out Exodus. com and others for some enlightening and somewhat scary information.

I listed Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon. When he asked what you think when you hear Organic Chemistry. Havent been in school years and still remember. Aslo Fallout 4, Synths..

If the molecules are so small you can't see them, how do you know how many epinephrin molecules there are in the epipen?

@TheWWDproductions

5 жыл бұрын

There are multiple ways to "see" something. While you can't use light to see an atom, you can use magnetism for instance.

have to write something about this for school im not gonna lie the words are going into one ear and coming out the other

I still feel anxious when I heard the word "Organic chem"!!!

Why do not work the web TED? Do you have same problem?

Organic Chemistry is love❤️

@atrimandal4324

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Mason Oh it's beautiful, and I kinda think why some people either hate it or love it to the extremes is because of how theoretical and pictoral and how mechanism based it is.

@atrimandal4324

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Mason I'm sure you have the same level of passion for Organic Chemistry if not all of Science ❤️ And well, as long as people loving Science keep loving Science just because it gives them a kick, it's in safe hands😂

@mesrega8020

5 жыл бұрын

Atri Mandal all chemistry branches are Great ♥

@amihamada7494

5 жыл бұрын

Hey I'm just started taking Organic chemistry, but I feel like I don't have a good material to study it with! Any suggestions or PDFs I can download??

If you mind TED Talks team, could you please add subtitle in the video for learners?

Can anyone suggest a organic chemistry book to feel chemistry or to love chemistry?

I miss my chemistry classes. Nowadays I have biochemistry