Bath Chemistry

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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!

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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

[Bath Chemistry @chematbath]

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