Craig Campbell

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Priority and Selectivity Rules To Help Students Predict Organic Reaction Mechanisms Organic reaction mechanisms lie at the heart of developing an understanding of how the molecular world functions. However, many students simply try to memorize mechanisms, or use their knowledge of th...

Just finished teaching my introductory course on Organic Reaction Mechanisms to our Year 1 chemistry undergraduates. I wrote this paper to share the unique approach, in which we develop some simple rules so students can predict mechanisms rather than just learn them.
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Has Jackie Weaver moved Handforth Parish Council over yet?

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So, after adding over 50 g of PhBr and thinking it was reacting smoothly and only slightly exothermically, I got a shock when it suddenly turned black and started foaming spectacularly, shooting all the way up - and out - the condenser. A black mini-fountain of Mg, benzene and PhMgBr.

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I needed to make a large batch of phenylmagnesium bromide, which needed over 100 g of bromobenzene. I'd made the Grignard reagent a reasonable number of times on scales up to 30 g, so thought this would be fine. This time, what I thought was reaction initiation wasn't though...

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A lovely 3D model to show E2 elimination of a bicyclic ring system - so satisfying to examine the structure!

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I am one of those 1,000,000+ new additions to Bluesky! - Looking forward to it expanding ever further so I can casually browse the latest chemistry developments, practically and in chemical education research!

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