Honestly, you don't see enough chemistry videos with good animation. This whole channel is extremely well done and I am so appreciative of the effort that goes into making these kinds of videos. Things like this clear the fog for so many students. Top tier work
Thanks for the kind words Cassie. Since my whole operation is just one humble professor at his kitchen table on the weekends, these animations do take quite a bit of time to design and especially to create. It's always nice to here people offering their support for the channel. If quality chemistry animations are interesting to you, you may also want to check out my courses on www.thegreatcourses.com and www.wondrium.com (search Professor Davis or Chemistry) That will show you what can really be accomplished when you have a team of professionals bringing your animations to life!
Learning with ADHD means I have to learn in visual ways -- I wish all of organic chemistry could be taught with 3D models like this! Also this is super cool to imagine going on all the time in solutions! Thank you !
It is for the same reason that opposite charges attract. It is one of the simplest empirical laws of nature that charge will always try to minimize itself. A particle physicist might have a more detailed answer for you, but as chemists we usually treat this tendency as an empirical fact. Anything that a species CAN do to minimize or distribute charge, it WILL do! Great question!
thank you so much! My organic chem professor really emphasizes MO theory, and it's so difficult for me to visualize what's actually happening in my head. I've had so much trouble understanding this concept for this entire semester. Thank you!
thank you i have learned this in 11th but i am not clear about concept.but now its crystal clear and also never forget.your explanation made it too easy for me.thanks for you.now i can go for exam.thanks a lot.
+Karthik Sekaran I am so glad that my work in some small way has helped you to make it through Organic Chemistry (That is no small feat, you should be proud of yourself!).
Was just watching one of your lectures on the great courses and needed to clarify something and it turned out to be your video! Thanks for both the resources!
It's so cool to see people still benefiting from this short video from almost 10 years ago.Thanks for watching and checking out the rest of my channel, too!
If you are looking for a more rigorous text than McMurry, you might try the Wade text from Prentice Hall. This is the text that we use at Georgetown. If you are looking instead for a more practical 'how to pass orgo' text, I suggest one of David Klein's books like 'Organic Chemistry as a Second Language'.
Huh. Interesting. This stuff is complicate enough in my native language, but i think i understood. I know understand one step further. Before this video i knew "Hyperconjugation stabilizes a Carbokation". Now i know "Hyperconjugation stabilizes it because we have more bonding electrons moving around and that stabilizes it." I still dont know why the fact that those electrons move to the positive charge stabilize it, but i guess this is enough for now.
wow this helped me a lot! I have an exam 2 days later and this topic was really bugging me..! thumbs up! to you video.. could have explained it better! :)
THANKYOU FOR THE ANIMATION!!! 😭😭😭😭 I had absolutely no idea what was happening in the chemistry. You just cleared up a huge tangled mess in my brain. 🤌🏼🤌🏼
So to sum it all up Hyperconjugation is a phenomenon in which the non bonding electrons from adjacent carbon hydrogen sigma bond are delocalized into the entire molecule hance making it more stable.
Great one !! , Just a small doubt, u said alkyl groups are weak electron donors but aren't they supposed to be the strongest electron donating groups after 0-
thank you for this video , it helped me understand better, but how do you explain that budatiene becomes thermodynamically more stable than isolated alkenes (thanks to conjugation and mesomery) but becomes more reactive towards nucleophiles and electrophiles?
