Bath Chemistry

chat session tonight at 6pm, MCQ quiz added to the end of Ian's course

fair play fr good sport on Fri! Gave £4 to poppy appeal, got biscuits 4 tut grp with rest! RT @SidneyEngland 5er to the bloke if this works!

Naturally occurring glucose is in the D isomer hence known in food industry as dextrose

About 50% of people genetically incapable of smelling diff between spearmint and caraway. Crazy for those who CAN tell how diff they are :)

Sinister just means left handed. Odd that we held onto the word as "evil" from days that left handers were seen as such!

Sigma is Greek letter S. When you look down the axis of a sigma bond it looks like an s orbital. Likewise p / pi #bathchemol1.9

the signs on these 3d waves are analogous to the up and down bits on a 2d transverse wave #bathchemol1.9

@villainpitch stabilisation of ANION favours diss. Where in lec r u referring to? check on coursecast #bathchemol1.7

the chat room on 10135/6 will be staffed tonight between 6+7. Qs can be asked on any of the lec courses tho #bathchemol1.7

Please RT: My series on quantum mechanics (Atom) is being repeated on BBC4 starting tomorrow at 7.30pm.

this curly arrow treatment of resonance appears in the acids prelec (acids coming in later lecture) #bathchemol1.4

rather excited to announce that the first 3 "pre lec" resources on equilibrium, acids/bases and mechanism now up at http://bit.ly/bmNRr4 :D

@villainpitch yeah look out for Ian's little digressions he adds for extra value like at end of yday

@villainpitch do people think more pace needed? #bathchemol1.3

an example of a delta negative carbon you'll come across this year is a grignard reagent #bathchemol1.3

@OJ204 thx for feedback and if that's the case then maybe best not to :)

am I the only one who thinks these chairs are really uncomfortable? #bathchemol1.2

check out the pretty diagram on pg2 of one of our best guesses on boron at the moment: http://bit.ly/bp2Ibd

incredible that only in the last few years we've even come *close* to understanding boron's awesome structure http://bit.ly/akarJD

considering how we use bond lines to simplify dot-cross bonding is the secret to understanding curly arrows #bathchemol1.1