Loved your engaging presentation Dr Robertson! And already more views than mine on the topic in 6 days!!! Really well done. Thank you so much for the referral...truly a surprise!

@ThreeTwentysix

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Chad, I really appreciate that. Our videos are for different purposes but yours are great and well worth watching for a properly academic explanation.

@ogi22

6 ай бұрын

@@ThreeTwentysix This is so great! Just as i commented before, because of you i'm getting a different view angle on chemistry, one closer to my heart - physics perspective. And your examples like not sitting next to a stranger in the bus, if there are other seats available, is just brilliant. Goes straight to imagination and makes it all "click" together much nicer. My only hope is that KZread will not destroy this lovely science and makers community... Thank you for your effort. There are many people hungry for knowledge, waiting for your explanations. 🥰

@Ultrafocused

5 ай бұрын

​@@ThreeTwentysixsir please make a video on organic chemistry

@pan_cimrman

5 ай бұрын

Chad and Dr Robertson! Two of the best creators of chemistry podcasts! I follow you both. I'm a volunteer tutor for AP and General chemistry and I'm always seeking to be better at making chemistry more clear and interesting. Both of you are instrumental in that task!

@avathenoob1

Ай бұрын

You should really focus on quality of video like thumbnails and stuff to increase viewer attraction just like this channel

Yes, please cover more topics like aromaticity please! I've always had a feeling that textbooks simplify topics for introductory purposes, but I've hardly felt that way towards aromaticity until you've mentioned it, and now my interest has been piqued! P.S. The way you cover topics are so clear and the visuals are fun :)

@ChemEDan

6 ай бұрын

If aryls are aromatic, esters must be called aroma-ey.

@Ice_Karma

6 ай бұрын

Regarding textbooks simplifying things, look up the concept of "lies to children". 😻

@stylis666

6 ай бұрын

Hell yes! And I would _love_ a video about making catalysts as well!

@waelfadlallah8939

6 ай бұрын

Count me in!!!!!!!!!!!

@MissionSilo

8 күн бұрын

What's aromaticity?

Holy moly. This is it. I’m a microbiologist and I could never understand why uni textbooks didn’t dedicate too much paper on this fundamental theory. Even the exercises where very mechanical and didn’t go beyond biatomic molecules scenarios. Of course, as a microbiologist, i’am more interested in linking chemistry theories with the unique molecular world of the cell, that is very messy. I mean this theory it’s crazy difficult but it’s immensely powerful. I must say that if I had you as my chemistry teacher I would be a chemist now, the energy, the passion and the amount of knowledge you put in is immensely inspiring. Thank you so much.

Definitely would watch your explanation on catalyst design! P.s your teaching rocks, leaving my curiousity vibrating

@mykeprior3436

6 ай бұрын

110% this

@hrig

4 ай бұрын

Oh yes, so hungry for that precious knoledge

Finally a good and not superficial chemistry youtube channel

I have a first class in Engineering from UCL and a PhD in physics, UMIST, and a lifetime of learning - I’m 66. Your work is incredible!

@ThreeTwentysix

20 күн бұрын

UMIST? Then we have something in common.

@gumtreeterry9904

20 күн бұрын

Yes, I did my EngD there after leaving the Army, 1996-2000. I was quite old 😅.

Learning chemistry without any visual imagery ability sucks

@Ritziey

Ай бұрын

that's why i learnt nothing properly in school . neither this or nor physics ... teachers made it only worse😢😂

Would love that catalyst video! Aromaticity would be great, too. Awesome work!

This one video essentially summed up multiple years worth of my chemistry course... in a better, more concise and interesting way (losing essentially no detail!) Your videos are seriously amazing!

A video on the catalytic mechanisms would be very interesting

I just want to say keep making these videos. You fill a niche on KZread that no one else has done, you are personable and have good camerawork, you are going to explode upwards! Thanks to your passion of chemistry and education you are helping a lot of young people learn what they don’t exactly teach in school.

I never studied chemistry beyond A Level, I like your method of explanation, we can listen to what you're saying, while allowing our brains to run ahead a little, that allows us to feel somewhat clever that we've worked out the next step, when in fact it's your very carefully laid-out path of breadcrumbs that guides us there.

Am 18 years old and Always try to find concepts on KZread which i have difficult and finally find best video on Chemistry of bonding, orbitals ...and so on

@triple_gem_shining

6 ай бұрын

😆

My friend, you could fill the entire KZread library with 'stuff they don't teach in school' 😂😂😂

@SackbotNinja03

6 ай бұрын

They do talk about this at school tho...

@AySz88

6 ай бұрын

A bit of a self-own, really... "I didn't get in the school that talked about this."

@triple_gem_shining

6 ай бұрын

in a real university chem class they DO tell you about it. LOL

@SackbotNinja03

6 ай бұрын

@@triple_gem_shining I suppose he means high school

@tjorvenblader

6 ай бұрын

@@triple_gem_shiningI got told this in high school when I was 16

Man...this video made my day...I was struggling to understand how everything works this video covers it all...please keep up..

Having just been introduced to crystal field theory in class today, I’d love a video on the design of catalysts and even how molecular orbital theory and crystal field theory are related. I love your videos by the way. You explain concepts in a really engaging manner :D

@triple_gem_shining

6 ай бұрын

Even though it's not entirely about what you commented, he does have a great about chemical crystal structure!

I would definitely like a deeper dive on aromatics, catalyst design, and other applied MO topics than some textbooks give us.

I've taken several years of university chemistry courses and this connected some ideas that I hadn't connected before. Thanks! A video on catalyst design and aromaticity would be great! I think they might even go together. At least when designing orbital energies the molecules usually have an aromatic part somewhere. 🤔

I’d really like to know how this relates to energy bands in solids! Thanks for the great video!

Yes, please more on aromaticity and catalysists.

I’m a PhD chemist. Great video, I always loved MO theory

Dr Robertson, this is the BEST FREE content available online on molecular orbital theory. Your explanations were easy enough for a sophomore to understand this. I would recommend you change the title of the video to something like 'Molecular Orbital Theory explanation' or something similar because that would help you with getting your target audience, and enhance view count. D Otherwise people are going to click the video and leave because its too complex of a topic for them to watch at dinner. This video is criminally underrated. Just subscribed.❤

great video aromaticity and catalysts videos would be enjoyed.

Every single topic you mentioned is one i want video for! I love these videos because these topics are covered very sparsely and in short in my high school course but seem very interesting to me! Please continue this, and thank you!

I’m so grateful for your channel. Was so pumped when I saw your teaser on instagram and have been waiting since then for this vid. If I had a professor like you in university, I would have kept going in chemistry without a doubt. Got really turned off to it in my orgo class and made my way over to pure math and electrical engineering instead, but it really is such a pleasure learning from you and seeing your perspective on the field. The world needs more scientists and science educators like you. 😊

You quickly became one of my favorite chemistry KZreadrs!!! You do a great job explaining complex topics and I genuinely appreciate it!

This is interesting, a video about designing catalysts would be really interesting 😊

Yes! Catalyst design as well please

One of the best videos I have watched on youtube, great explanations, intuitive, in depth and inspiring communication of the subject. Being a chemist with a background in theoretical chemistry myself, can't help but feel like a student again and be excited to learn (and relearn) more. Thank you, I wish I had found your channel earlier 😂

I would like to see the topic of light interaction with molecules. You’ve done UV; how about IR (bending and stretching) and MW (rotational entropy).

PLEASE MORE VIDEOS ON THESE.

Wow. I’m incredibly impressed once again. This is one of the best videos on MOs I’ve watched so far! Kudos

I'd of course love a dedicated video of aromaticity as well on on catalysts for sure! Just love your work! I think your channel has the potential to become to theoretical chemistry what is PBS Space Time to theoretical physics and 3blue1brown to math. Another topic I would like to see is the Atomic radius, but it even would be better if you would make videos on reactions like the Thermodynamic vs. Kinematic control of reactions, etc. Keep up the good work! :)

@ThreeTwentysix

6 ай бұрын

Being mentioned with @PBSspacetime and @3blue1brown is high praise indeed, thank you. You'll be happy to hear kinetics is on the board for our upcoming second or third video. Thermodynamics is going to be some way off because it's going to be a series, but it's slated for some time next year.

YES please do aromaticity. I really wished I found your channel while I was taking organic chemistry but I finished orgo 2 already (Im a cellular biology major) but I still find chemistry fascinating and this video made it so much clearer.

I have a couple of questions for your next episode of the series. 1. What is Secular Equilibrium in nuclear chemistry? 2. Why are f orbitals not yet fully understood? What is the inherent reason behind why computers and software such as DFT and HF can’t properly model molecules containing f orbitals? 3. What is the size of “limit” for a molecule? Could you theoretically have an individual molecule the size of an entire planet? Why or why not? 4. How does the Jan-Teller effect know which ligands are axial and which are equitorial? Isn’t that just a matter of perspective (assuming all the ligands are equivalent)? 5. Can dark matter exist in the nucleus of an atom? What about in it’s orbitals? 6. Can the electrons of an atom go inside the nucleus? Why or why not? 7. What are Brillouin Zones? 8. The half life of a population of radioactive atoms is estimated well with statistical analysis, yet, how come there is nothing we can do to extend or shorten this half life? Thanks for your videos, they are an invaluable resource to youtube!

Thank you for the great content. we want more because you explain concepts in a really intriguing manner.

Yes! Cover aromaticity please.

Yes please! All of those video ideas sounds so interesting.

Good stuff man. I don't fully have my head around this aspect yet but with explanations like this, it can't be long

KZread only recommended you to me the other day, I studied science up to college but work in IT, I've always loved the subject and maintain a keen interest, loving your work. In answer to all of your 'let me know if I should make a video' questions - yes to all of them, your explanations are engaging and superb, thank you for the time you put in.

Thakyou for this! The diagrams from school never made sense and this begins to for me! (I'm a mathematician).

The 3d animations make the whole difference. This channel is gold.

This video clarified so much for me, it's ridiculous; you're an incredibly fine educator sir :D I've subscribed, and I would love to see a full on knock-out video on topics like aromaticity and catalytic chemistry. Also would love to hear what you have to say on coordination complexes in organometallic chemistry.

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

What an *excellent* explanation for molecular orbital theory. I love how you explain how the oscillations giving a visual representation of the quantum mechanical states of MOs - and about chemical reactivity between HOMOs and LUMOs - makes much more sense and explains the link in terms of energy differences. 😁👍

This was great! Seems to be the clearest explanation of the molecular orbital theory i've heard so far.

you're great at what you do.

Im a big fan of the conception of electrons as the entire orbital, like theyre smeared out across the orbital region, but permeable, such that the protons/nuclei of the atoms can "sink into" the lowest energy position within their "cloud." The molecular orbital theory meshes with that amazingly well. So to speak, the electrons can share space with each other, but only in so far as their orbitals merge in a stable configuration, one which accounts for the mass and probability density of their sum total while also maintaining a stable spin configuration or phase as you put it. Thanks! Id never heard of this theory till now and i greatly appreciate it!

Thanks for this inspiring video! It closes a gap hurting in my head since I finished studying sciences. Lectures with orbitals and binding theories have always been a warrant for boredom. But there is a way for an understandable explication.

Catalyst design sounds fascinating! I particularly appreciated the explanation of how OLED's work, this framework allows understanding of the idea better than any other I've encountered, thanks!

Another great video. I simply love your explanations. Excellent job sir! Keep enlightening us!

B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Biology, here. I loved this. In predictablity the use of AI is going to change everything. We can take a combined approach and use the data and rule sets...comparing measured results and energy levels and iteratively feed it to the computer to get better predictability. This is going to help accelerate chemistry into places we've never seen before. This is important for isolating new drugs and discovering new materials for use in electronics, coatings, pharmaceuticals, and new chemicals for detection. Bravo. You do an exceptional job in making this probabilistic universe more understandable to the layman. No, it isn't intuitive, but matter does not play the same games we do. Matter and space and time live in the realm of probability. It is going to be a paradigm shift when we discover and can prove that particles are just space folded back on itself...and are not entities...but events that happen to the fabric of space.

Fantastic presentation! It sounds like pretty fascinating stuff!

I absolutely love your teaching!

Your videos are awesome, it really helps provide an easy to understand visual representation to molecular bonds using illustrations. I always wondered after reading up on quantum field theory, electron clouds, probability densities translated into atoms bonding and forming various molecules, seeing how phases/constructive or destructive interference determines their bonds and energy states really helped solidify my understanding of it all. QFT, molecular bonds, science in general fascinates me to no end, I can't imagine a life not knowing nor having the desire to know how our fundamental reality works to our best understanding

You are the best at this! Keep it up!

Very cool explanation!

I loved this. Its new to me but very enlightening.

Bro... this video give me hope for humanity. We got this.

This is good stuff, I learned molecular orbital theory, but it was like twenty years ago. And we did not get into the quantum mechanics of it. As I went through other classes and learned on my own, I definitely realized I wasn't getting the full picture. Bond theory was the one we studied and practiced using. I had to drop out before getting to take organic😢, so I lost a ton of useful stuff because of it. I'm too out of date to try again, but I love chemistry so much! It really was my first love. It's hard to find good YT chemistry, or at least it historically has been. That seems to be changing slowly. You definitely help with that...

@tzimmermann

6 ай бұрын

It's never too late. I changed discipline from physics to robotics 15 years ago and mostly did some engineering related stuff from this point onwards. But I went back to learning theoretical physics a few years ago in my spare time just for fun. A lot of concepts I was struggling with back then appear almost trivial to me now, and I can tell I have a more profound and mature understanding of this field. I must admit that I never stopped doing maths so that helped quite a bit, but having a more "seasoned" brain makes learning difficult stuff easier. If you have the time for it, definitely do what you love.

@Robert_McGarry_Poems

6 ай бұрын

@@tzimmermann I like learning, I thrive in university settings... I'm bankrupt from school and medical debt. I can't go back because they won't let me not the other way around... Being born poor, autistic, and without support... Doesn't lend itself well to the US _"education"_ system.

@tzimmermann

6 ай бұрын

@@Robert_McGarry_Poems I feel you, mate. I had the chance to be born in France where university fees are dirt cheap and I feel sorry for you guys who have to deal with this absolute BS of a system. Now, you can absolutely learn stuff by yourself with free online resources, and books (that you can also find for "free" in pdf format, or really cheap on sites like abebooks), and papers on scihub. I learned way more by myself than I ever did at the uni while spending very little money. But I learned how to learn there (and you certainly did too). You seem to be a passionate guy, don't let this die out.

A video about designing Catalysts would be greatly appreciated!!! Absolutely amazing content!!!

Liked before watching!

@ThreeTwentysix

6 ай бұрын

That was fast!

@vorkaff3600

6 ай бұрын

Great video as always. Keep them coming!@@ThreeTwentysix

4:50 Thank you for making the point that orbitals are not containers. Too often we cause misunderstandings in our language where we say an orbital is empty, partially filled, or filled implying that it is a container into which electrons are inserted.

Just mindblowing stuff. Amazing explanations! Thank you!

Outstanding video!

this is a better explanation than any professor has ever given me. thank you!!!

Very good video. I often share your videos in my fb business groups for their learnings.

Probably for a similar reason that we start with Newtonian gravitational models instead of jumping straight to General Relativity. It's a good approximation for simple cases, and the cases where it breaks help develop an understanding of the more complicated model. (Referring to 21:39 about why don't we just use molecular orbital theory instead of the simpler valence bond theory.)

Thank you for clearing my doubts richard hammond

Thank you for the excellent work and sharing !

Thank you for the great content. Yes, please. Video on designing catalysts.

Brilliant video. You sum up really well how quantum mechanics causes bonding. That video on designing catalysts sounds super interesting!

Dedicated aromaticity video please. Love this stuff

Yes, please make all the videos you stated.

I discovered this channel today after getting this video recommended to me. Recently I've found a new interest in biochemistry and next year I'm starting a masters degree in biomedical engineering specialised in bioengineering and applied cell biology. One of my most anticipated courses is Advanced Organic Chemistry and videos like these are making me even more excited for what's to come :). Keep making videos, you are a great explainer and I find this way of explaining + your way of talking very nice and relaxing to follow! +1 sub :D

Aromaticity and designing catalysts would be so helpful! Thank you

Doctor Robertson, it has been a great experience listening to this presentation by you, I am a Chemical Eng., for my profession, the Lewis explanation and counting electrons in atomic orbitals had been enough up to this day. Congratulations

Definitely interested by the catalyst effect. Thank you very much for the video. It's so clear I feel I understood everything.

Do the video about aromatic compounds!!

@andrej6663

6 ай бұрын

On other hand do the video about catalysts as well!😅

Just subscribed, really great videos! Excited to see what other topics you cover

I absolutely love the way you explain chemistry!!! And yes, I would like a video on aromaticity very much...

Finally! The answer to all my questions!

Thank you so much for this video! Please talk more about electron orbitals, this is great.

@hric.martin

6 ай бұрын

The previous comment I left roughly in the middle of the video. I just finished watching and I have to say thank you sooo much, great explanation, great topic.

A discussion of aromaticity in Molecular Orbital Theory would be very welcome. I remember seeing the molecular orbitals of molecules like methane (very interesting in itself) and the HOMOs and LUMOs of more complex linear organic molecules, but don't think I've seen much surrounding aromatic rings.

Wonderful videos. I'm very very grateful that You take time to educate. And hell yeah to video about designing catalyst. This channel is scrumptious.

This was great! I for one would like a video describing the theoretical development of a catalyst.

A really outstanding presentation: - Interesting topic? Check! - Headline fits the content? Check! - Visuals support the narrative? Double check! - Distracting visual eye-candy detected anywhere? Uncheck! (That has become a rare feat on KZread) - Engaging presentation? Check! - A pinch of humor? Check! - Didactic path finding through the maze? Check! - Creative analogies? Check! - Viewing time well invested? Check! Definitely! This is the 2nd video I watch on the channel and they both have that outstanding quality! Subscribed? Check!

@ThreeTwentysix

Ай бұрын

What a reply! Thank you!

Awesome. Thank you.

I’d love to see you do a video using the atomic clouds in your prior video to show all the orbitals in a “simple” molecular bond. I’m sure it would be challenging to get a clean visual on anything but the smallest molecules, but it would still be a great bridge between the two topics. Particularly in showing *why* only the outermost orbitals become bonding or non bonding molecular orbitals.

you are good sir. This is indeed a treat in this almost abstract topic.

Thanks for the great video! A video on designing catalysts would be very appreciated. Could you also briefly touch on the use of high-entropy mixed metal alloys as catalysts? These were so hyped a few years ago, but I haven't heard much about them since.

Just discovered your channel. Life is good. Would definitely watch a video about catalysts ! You made my day. Best

There's intelligent life on KZread ! This guy explained the subject better than my ChemE instructor from years ago....

Yes really like your take on aromaticity and catalysis design as it relates to theoretical and synthetic chemist views

It's humming. And takes shape

Thanks i needed the Mot details shared at the end😁

I needed this video about 3 weeks ago for my molecular geometry test

Thank you! Great video!

Brilliant! Aromaticity video please! And please do one on Azulene :)

A catalyst design video would be amazing