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Hank, you and John need to be in charge of all education in the country. Seriously, if my high school taught chemistry half as well as you, I wouldn't have been constantly failing.
I just had 3 hours of lecture on aromatics and cyclics... yet, somehow, as usual, crashcourse took 180 minutes of convoluted information and delivered it in a fun, digestible, 10 minute informative video. Thank you!
Crash course video's like the ones on this channel are a good way to get to know the basics but it's a summary and therefore not detailed enough to pass your exams! For example the Huckle rule is not mentioned, just like the rules for aromaticy and anti-aromaticy and the fact that aromatic compounds don't undergo addition reactions. If Hank had to explain every detail it wouldn't be a crash course anymore but a college lesson. Just keep in mind that if you want to pass your exam, you better study from your books as well :)
Wait. Hank has a degree in biochemistry, he knows about aromaticity. Being a ring with resonance is not where aromaticity comes from. Being a planar ring with p orbitals all the way around and having 4n+2 electrons in them where n is any integer is how a ring becomes aromatic. Other aromatic compounds include cyclopropenone (resonance structure produces 4*0+2 p orbital electrons), furan (oxacyclopentadiene) is aromatic (4*1+2 p orbital electrons), and borazine (4*1+2 p orbital electrons, and it isn't even organic). Meanwhile, compounds like cyclooctatetraene have the same kind of alternating sigma and pi bonds in a ring, but aren't aromatic. In this particular case, cyclooctatetraene actually bends itself out of shape because it has 4n (4*2) electrons, which would make it not just not aromatic, but anti-aromatic if it stayed planar. Anti-aromatic compounds are extremely unstable, so they tend to either not exist or find ways to avoid have a planar conjugated cyclic array.
in org chemistry i thought the term aromatic was used a little differently, and necessarily implies a carbon ring with resonance, so maybe he's trying to stick to the organic theme of this batch of episodes?
It's so amazing how you cover exactly what I'm going over in Chemistry when I am being taught it. It happened with thermochemistry, electrochemistry, acid-base, and now organic chemistry. It's as if you made the videos specifically for me! Thanks for the awesome videos. :)
I was quite literally just thinking about the science of aromas yesterday! Goodness. I still have a question: Does an aromatic material lose matter in order to give off a smell? Do incredibly smelly materials effectively have "half-lives"? Do radioactive compounds with half-lives have aromas?
when you smell something you are smelling the paricles that are light enough to get into the air (usually gasses) so no they are not radioactive or loseing material the material is just going into your nose and getting stuck. as far as particularly strong smells they usually contain certain atoms or molecules, nitrogen and sulfer being the most distinctive. nitrogen compounds are some of the worst smelling molecules with plesant names such as putrescine, cadaverine, and Spermidine... i'll leave it up to you to decide where that is from!
Dude, get your freakin PhD and become a prof, you'd be amazing! This was a great way to review my biochem1 class 3 years later. I've been watching your videos for a while, great material, and it's great material I've been passing on to my students as well. Keep on keeping on!
In laymans terms for resonance. if the formal charge is imbalanced anywhere in the bonds, there will be resonance in order to balance this out. For example: ozone which has one double bond. the single bond oxygen however has a formal charge of -1 while the center oxygen has +1, the third oxygen (which has the double bond with the center oxygen) has a formal charge of 0. because the balance with the center oxygen and the single bond oxygen is imbalanced it will switch the double bond between the first in third back and forth. O-O=O -> O=O-O the two possible outcomes of the ozone lewis structure. (sorry cannot show the additional electrons but this should help make things easier.)
thank you so much I use crash course as a warm up before diving into the details. It's amazing how you guys script the information so both beginners and advanced learners can understand.
I hope if you guys come back and read this comment you don't take it the wrong way but... when I was in school I found chemistry so unbelievably boring that it's kind of vindicating to come back, have it explained to me by someone who is genuinely charismatic and in an environment where I'm actively choosing to learn about it and my eyes are still glazing over. I was really good at chemistry because it was pretty much just practical math for the most part and I very nearly went to school for it but I just couldn't stay interested, I could never really motivate myself to learn about and understand all the different classifications and how they fit together and for a while I've thought that maybe deciding not to pursue that kind of career might have been a mistake, that I was just being lazy or whatever, but it definitely wasn't that I'm just utterly not interested. Nothing against you guys, you're doing a great job and I love the channel but I just can't get into this subject matter. Thanks for helping me put away a little doubt about my earlier life choices :)
Despite their name, aromatics don't actually refer to their aroma. They were originally isolated from sweet-smelling oils but it now actually refers to their structures rather than aroma. I hope that's right as I just learnt it in A2 chemistry :)
I AM A HUGE FAN OF YOUR VIDEOS. It makes boring topics so interesting and fun with your 3D visuals and Hank is so humorous as well. I WAS WONDERING, CAN YOU ALSO DO A VIDEO ON ISOMERSISM AND OPTICAL MERISM, THEN ALL MY CLASSMATES WILL WATCH IT TOO. Right now you skip over so many topics in a chapter, so they don't wanna even check you out. Please do that, you will be a great hit. I promise....
seldom do i call my mom, but i got so damn excited about science i had to call her (shes a nurse so we have this love in common). you da man hank. and a thanks to all the guys at crashcourse
I am in Organic CHM part 2 right now and man I wished I'd known these videos existed last semester! I almost didn't survive that class but you explain everything so well
Quantum-mechanical analysis of the MO method and VB method from the position of PQS. The MO method and the VB method are analyzed using the principle of quantum superposition (PQS) and the method of describing a quantum system consisting of several parts. It is shown that the main assumption of the molecular orbitals method (namely, that the molecular orbital can be represented like a linear combination of overlapping atomic orbitals) enters into an insurmountable contradiction with the principle of quantum superposition. It is also shown that the description of a quantum system consisting of several parts (adopted in quantum mechanics) actually prohibits ascribe in VB method to members of equation corresponding canonical structures. Using the quantum superposition principle, the MO method and the VB method were analyzed and it is shown that they are in contradiction with quantum mechanics. Also, using the quantum-mechanical description of a system consisting of several parts, it is shown that the attribution of canonical structures to the members of the equation is incorrect. Therefore, both the MO method and the VB method did not describe molecules with chemical bonds but actually, a lot of atoms (of which the described molecules consisted). That is, in the quantum chemical calculations, the chemical bond was "lost". Therefore, in order to "introduce" a chemical bond into calculations and avoid conflict with quantum mechanics, it is suggested to postulate the existence of MO as a new fundamental quality that describes a specific chemical bond and is not derived from simpler structural elements. Quantum-mechanical analysis of the MO method and VB method from the position of PQS. vixra.org/pdf/1704.0068v1.pdf
The coolest thing about cyclopropane is that its bonds are called "banana bonds" (or bent bonds but this sounds more boring). Because the triangle has angles of 60° but its hybrid orbitals (sp3) have angles of 109,5°, so they overlap kinda bent - like bananas.
Really amazing.... Listening and visualising simultaneously in short timing is because of crash course only... And that historical stories ... I love it
Only wish that Crash Course touched a bit on the mechanisms of a few characteristic reactions, such as Sn1 and Sn2 mechanisms for Nucleophilic Substitution etc.
Alright. I got this. First watch - totally confused. It's usually on the third watch when I go "Ohhhh" and comment like everybody else how much of a savior you are, which you totally are. It's just that as per usual, first-watches always suck since it deeply enhances my Imposter Syndrome. But... I will definitely thank you in about 2 hours!
i just finish my organic chemistry B course, it was way more complicated than this, but it has lot of useful info in just 10 minutes :) nice chemistry snack
You can't create something which already exists.You can only discover it.Therefore organic chemistry has always existed.so we could have only discovered it.
You defined an aromatic as a cyclic compound with conjugated pi bonding and resonance. This definition is not technically wrong, but it is analogous to defining a square as any rectangle. There is an important distinction to be made between aromaticity, like in benzene, and anti-aromaticity, like in cyclobuta-1,3-diene. While I understand this is not a formal course, we should still appreciate the difference. The chemisty involved is vastly different between the two, one being very stablizing, the other very destablizing. Moreover, your initial definition would be confusing if you later wish to go deeper into the topic of aromaticity and molecular stability, which I hope you do!
I really need to watch every single episode of this chemistry course back to back and over and over again to learn these things, luckily I have a brilliant and cunning excuse not to, I'm fourteen and I am lazy.
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Once again, we can find Hank Green saving my ass on a science test
Proud Hunter thank god for hank green :P
Proud Hunter hehehe me too chemistry#40 -#43 :)
Last minute crash course before my uni exams as per usual
How did it go?
now back to ppap remixes...
+Max Jordan lololol
feel ya, bruh!
Nyaiffy I
Hank, you and John need to be in charge of all education in the country. Seriously, if my high school taught chemistry half as well as you, I wouldn't have been constantly failing.
"This is the same root as Bon Jovi."
OOOOOH!
"It's not."
...don't toy with my heart like that.
Hey, Folks! I believe everything he says so easily because of his credibility lol I’m so gullible
People are talking about uni exams whereas I just want to get through my high school chemistry test on hydrocarbons. XD
same 😂
I KNOW RIGHT. mine's like two days away
s a m e
exams are tomorrow aaaaaa,,
Haha same
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I just had 3 hours of lecture on aromatics and cyclics... yet, somehow, as usual, crashcourse took 180 minutes of convoluted information and delivered it in a fun, digestible, 10 minute informative video. Thank you!
I really, really like the texture on this blazer. Looks soft and smooth.
LOL! Ikr! It was hard not to notice.
thank you so much for this video :) could you continue the series and add a video about substitution reactions like the SN1 and SN2 and E1 and E2 ?
What I've learned from this is that chemistry is batshit bonkers.
"If you payed attention..." I love this ending to all the videos! Thanks, Mr. Green! (;
This video gives me flashbacks to Organic Chem as an undergrad. I drew so many aromatic rings that year...
I laugh at that Bon Jovi joke every time.
+Nika Cross Benjoin: Bon jovi, you can see where he's coming from
I have been watching your videos for a month now and you helped me choose my major in college by showing me how awesome chemistry is. Thank you Hank!
I forgot how much orgo I forgot over the past 7 years since I last took them.
How long will it be until you forget that you forgot how much you forgot?
I won't find out that until I remember again
@justine klent madanlo lol
Crash course video's like the ones on this channel are a good way to get to know the basics but it's a summary and therefore not detailed enough to pass your exams! For example the Huckle rule is not mentioned, just like the rules for aromaticy and anti-aromaticy and the fact that aromatic compounds don't undergo addition reactions. If Hank had to explain every detail it wouldn't be a crash course anymore but a college lesson. Just keep in mind that if you want to pass your exam, you better study from your books as well :)
Wait. Hank has a degree in biochemistry, he knows about aromaticity. Being a ring with resonance is not where aromaticity comes from. Being a planar ring with p orbitals all the way around and having 4n+2 electrons in them where n is any integer is how a ring becomes aromatic. Other aromatic compounds include cyclopropenone (resonance structure produces 4*0+2 p orbital electrons), furan (oxacyclopentadiene) is aromatic (4*1+2 p orbital electrons), and borazine (4*1+2 p orbital electrons, and it isn't even organic). Meanwhile, compounds like cyclooctatetraene have the same kind of alternating sigma and pi bonds in a ring, but aren't aromatic. In this particular case, cyclooctatetraene actually bends itself out of shape because it has 4n (4*2) electrons, which would make it not just not aromatic, but anti-aromatic if it stayed planar. Anti-aromatic compounds are extremely unstable, so they tend to either not exist or find ways to avoid have a planar conjugated cyclic array.
in org chemistry i thought the term aromatic was used a little differently, and necessarily implies a carbon ring with resonance, so maybe he's trying to stick to the organic theme of this batch of episodes?
LOL, those wacky carbon atoms have me in stitches.
that picture of drawing "Hank
Learned more in this one video than in half a semester of classes, thanks :D
" just to make sure you're, like, good and solidly confused " XD
I don't get why people complain about his speed, I always watch Hank in 1.25-1.5 speed. It makes more sense.
Cool
watching crash course before my tests as usual, thanks guys!!
It's so amazing how you cover exactly what I'm going over in Chemistry when I am being taught it. It happened with thermochemistry, electrochemistry, acid-base, and now organic chemistry. It's as if you made the videos specifically for me! Thanks for the awesome videos. :)
dude...u speak so fast and clear!! ( compliment)
Should've talked about the 4n+2 rule
Huckel's rule
Yeah, ur right
I was quite literally just thinking about the science of aromas yesterday! Goodness. I still have a question: Does an aromatic material lose matter in order to give off a smell? Do incredibly smelly materials effectively have "half-lives"? Do radioactive compounds with half-lives have aromas?
when you smell something you are smelling the paricles that are light enough to get into the air (usually gasses) so no they are not radioactive or loseing material the material is just going into your nose and getting stuck. as far as particularly strong smells they usually contain certain atoms or molecules, nitrogen and sulfer being the most distinctive. nitrogen compounds are some of the worst smelling molecules with plesant names such as putrescine, cadaverine, and Spermidine... i'll leave it up to you to decide where that is from!
6:18 i was literally dying to know.
Dude, get your freakin PhD and become a prof, you'd be amazing! This was a great way to review my biochem1 class 3 years later. I've been watching your videos for a while, great material, and it's great material I've been passing on to my students as well. Keep on keeping on!
In laymans terms for resonance. if the formal charge is imbalanced anywhere in the bonds, there will be resonance in order to balance this out.
For example: ozone which has one double bond. the single bond oxygen however has a formal charge of -1 while the center oxygen has +1, the third oxygen (which has the double bond with the center oxygen) has a formal charge of 0. because the balance with the center oxygen and the single bond oxygen is imbalanced it will switch the double bond between the first in third back and forth. O-O=O -> O=O-O the two possible outcomes of the ozone lewis structure. (sorry cannot show the additional electrons but this should help make things easier.)
thank you so much I use crash course as a warm up before diving into the details. It's amazing how you guys script the information so both beginners and advanced learners can understand.
So thankful for these CrashCourse videos when exams are coming up. Definitely a concise but informative review of the overall topics. :D
AH MA ZING !
This is what is so hard for our chemistry teacher to explain in 45 minutes, you nailed it!
This DESERVES my like
'It's also the same as Bon jovi! Not really!' - Hank Green, 2013
I hope if you guys come back and read this comment you don't take it the wrong way but... when I was in school I found chemistry so unbelievably boring that it's kind of vindicating to come back, have it explained to me by someone who is genuinely charismatic and in an environment where I'm actively choosing to learn about it and my eyes are still glazing over. I was really good at chemistry because it was pretty much just practical math for the most part and I very nearly went to school for it but I just couldn't stay interested, I could never really motivate myself to learn about and understand all the different classifications and how they fit together and for a while I've thought that maybe deciding not to pursue that kind of career might have been a mistake, that I was just being lazy or whatever, but it definitely wasn't that I'm just utterly not interested. Nothing against you guys, you're doing a great job and I love the channel but I just can't get into this subject matter. Thanks for helping me put away a little doubt about my earlier life choices :)
It's good to know what you DON'T like so you can move on to do something that you DO like. Nothing wrong with finding chemistry boring. :)
Despite their name, aromatics don't actually refer to their aroma. They were originally isolated from sweet-smelling oils but it now actually refers to their structures rather than aroma. I hope that's right as I just learnt it in A2 chemistry :)
thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou so much, this is just in time for my organic chem test tomorrow
I AM A HUGE FAN OF YOUR VIDEOS. It makes boring topics so interesting and fun with your 3D visuals and Hank is so humorous as well. I WAS WONDERING, CAN YOU ALSO DO A VIDEO ON ISOMERSISM AND OPTICAL MERISM, THEN ALL MY CLASSMATES WILL WATCH IT TOO. Right now you skip over so many topics in a chapter, so they don't wanna even check you out. Please do that, you will be a great hit. I promise....
huckel's rule and anti aromatic compounds deserved a mentioning !
at 7:00 he seems so happy and theres the little guy on his shoulder like "ahhhhwwwww" And then he's like "It's not," with that smile I lost it!
OMG! Hank you just made me fall in love with organic chemistry!!!!
Their videos have this very relaxing vibe which is the only reason i watch crash course not any other educational channel
seldom do i call my mom, but i got so damn excited about science i had to call her (shes a nurse so we have this love in common). you da man hank. and a thanks to all the guys at crashcourse
Please please please do not stop doing this.... you are getting me through undergrad one video at a time....
also, I need next weeks video noowwwww
I am in Organic CHM part 2 right now and man I wished I'd known these videos existed last semester! I almost didn't survive that class but you explain everything so well
This video made a mention to Jovi, Java, and Sumatera. Easily my most favorite CrashCourse video even though I love John's field more
my chem exam is next week
Same
+Jay Bee good luck for us *fingers crossed*
same xD
Mine is tomorrow lol!
How did it go?
Thanks to Ryan and Reese! :)
Quantum-mechanical analysis of the MO method and VB method from the position of PQS.
The MO method and the VB method are analyzed using the principle of quantum superposition (PQS) and the method of describing a quantum system consisting of several parts. It is shown that the main assumption of the molecular orbitals method (namely, that the molecular orbital can be represented like a linear combination of overlapping atomic orbitals) enters into an insurmountable contradiction with the principle of quantum superposition. It is also shown that the description of a quantum system consisting of several parts (adopted in quantum mechanics) actually prohibits ascribe in VB method to members of equation corresponding canonical structures.
Using the quantum superposition principle, the MO method and the VB method were analyzed and it is shown that they are in contradiction with quantum mechanics. Also, using the quantum-mechanical description of a system consisting of several parts, it is shown that the attribution of canonical structures to the members of the equation is incorrect. Therefore, both the MO method and the VB method did not describe molecules with chemical bonds but actually, a lot of atoms (of which the described molecules consisted). That is, in the quantum chemical calculations, the chemical bond was "lost". Therefore, in order to "introduce" a chemical bond into calculations and avoid conflict with quantum mechanics, it is suggested to postulate the existence of MO as a new fundamental quality that describes a specific chemical bond and is not derived from simpler structural elements.
Quantum-mechanical analysis of the MO method and VB method from the position of PQS.
vixra.org/pdf/1704.0068v1.pdf
Seriously though, I went from getting 40s on my exam's to 80s. Thanks Hank! You da bomb! Although, more organic chemistry videos would be nice.
+Logann Shepherd I say have a separate series of Crash Course: Organic Chemistry.
funny how he pronounced cyclic as sicklick :D thanks for saving me
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Awesome reference to Craig Benzine at 6:40!!
ty for speaking fast it saves my time..
Now I am in Love with aromatics and cyclic compounds!
^_^ :')
+Mahir Muzahid me too!
Thanks for helping me study for my Organic Chemistry final.
Science genius and saviour.
Hank Green Blessed me !!!
Hank... please talk more on naming these compounds. I am very confused.!!
That section was far too brief!
The coolest thing about cyclopropane is that its bonds are called "banana bonds" (or bent bonds but this sounds more boring). Because the triangle has angles of 60° but its hybrid orbitals (sp3) have angles of 109,5°, so they overlap kinda bent - like bananas.
Really amazing.... Listening and visualising simultaneously in short timing is because of crash course only... And that historical stories ... I love it
I finally get addition, substition, condensation and aromatics thanks to these videos. Thank you! (:
just a small correction : Aromatics don't undergo addition reactions since they are stable.
ty for vid :)))
These are great! Ya'll should be life savers and include organic reactions into the mix! I'll love that.
Wow...I didn't think it was possible to make a T-shirt and a suit jacket work together, but you pulled it off nicely.
Was that guy with the coffee meant to be WheezyWaiter? Also known as Craig *Benzine* (which sounds exactly like *benzene*)?
happy 200th video crash course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
before khanacedemy addiction, and armando,, now crashcourse
SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations on 200 Videos!
Its so cool to understand the basic
These videos really help me to understand chemistry names.
crash course is better than my professor in organic chemistry.
he is a true lecturer assumes that all students knows am a pharmaceutical technology student
Only wish that Crash Course touched a bit on the mechanisms of a few characteristic reactions, such as Sn1 and Sn2 mechanisms for Nucleophilic Substitution etc.
Please please do crash course organic chemistry
I literally spent the entire video coming up with a Benzine - WheezyWaiter joke, but no luck.
Some derivatives of benzine can make you wheezy when inhaled. Therefore don't inhale clones.
Alright. I got this. First watch - totally confused. It's usually on the third watch when I go "Ohhhh" and comment like everybody else how much of a savior you are, which you totally are. It's just that as per usual, first-watches always suck since it deeply enhances my Imposter Syndrome. But... I will definitely thank you in about 2 hours!
not all aromatic compounds smell though... they are just called aromatic compounds because they have similar properties as compounds that do smell
I always just imagined the delocalized π-electron cloud as having a smell to it. Kind of like how one would imagine Pigpen from Peanuts would.
Your making me want to study organic chemistry...
John Green saving me from a boring after school life and Hank Green saving me from school life
This was awesome, I think I am finally understanding Hydrocarbons and also all those chemistry drawings I have seen around.
Good refresh on my high school chemistry! Thanks!
i just finish my organic chemistry B course, it was way more complicated than this, but it has lot of useful info in just 10 minutes :) nice chemistry snack
Do crash course quantum physics/mechanics.
there is crash course physics and quantum physics is physics after all
"Whhhaaaaat?" - Every chemistry student since the creation of organic chemistry.
You can't create something which already exists.You can only discover it.Therefore organic chemistry has always existed.so we could have only discovered it.
Amazing!!!!!! My brain is melting
I have a chemistry exam tomorrow!
This is my favorite crash course. Make biochemistry videos
English is my third language, and I find u talking super fast !!!!!
What do you mean "Seriously?!", the phène/I illuminate thing is wonderful and brilliant. :)
Hey hey... mothballs smell pretty nice. Reminds me of my grandma's closet.
really love that sketch.....
cannot wait for PhD level content to have explanations this concise!
Definitely a like on this one!!
6:43 CRAIG BENZENE/ WHEEZYWAITER I GET IT ALL NOW!!!!
Miss Roberts ❤️Hank
You defined an aromatic as a cyclic compound with conjugated pi bonding and resonance. This definition is not technically wrong, but it is analogous to defining a square as any rectangle. There is an important distinction to be made between aromaticity, like in benzene, and anti-aromaticity, like in cyclobuta-1,3-diene.
While I understand this is not a formal course, we should still appreciate the difference. The chemisty involved is vastly different between the two, one being very stablizing, the other very destablizing. Moreover, your initial definition would be confusing if you later wish to go deeper into the topic of aromaticity and molecular stability, which I hope you do!
I really need to watch every single episode of this chemistry course back to back and over and over again to learn these things, luckily I have a brilliant and cunning excuse not to, I'm fourteen and I am lazy.
Great video :)