A crash course in organic chemistry | Jakob Magolan

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  • Опубликовано: 26 июл 2018
  • Jakob Magolan is here to change your perception of organic chemistry. In an accessible talk packed with striking graphics, he teaches us the basics while breaking the stereotype that organic chemistry is something to be afraid of.
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  • @Lostpanda123
    @Lostpanda123 5 лет назад +272

    The subject is quite easy, the students struggle at it because of the limited time they get to absorb all the new information.

    • @grannyspeachtea7764
      @grannyspeachtea7764 5 лет назад

      Like memorise C(n) H(2n+1)?I don't even remember it correctly

    • @Lostpanda123
      @Lostpanda123 5 лет назад +23

      another reason why so many struggle, they memorize instead of learning the topics...

    • @grannyspeachtea7764
      @grannyspeachtea7764 5 лет назад +1

      Uhuh? How do you learn a formula without memorising it? The very definition of a formula is = don't break your head as to how the calculation came to be. And to clarify, I'm a person who dropped out of college because my education system was presupposed to memorising stuff and I absolutely didn't want to study that way. Now I'm self taught.

    • @DjiboutiBShowin
      @DjiboutiBShowin 5 лет назад +10

      No calculators needed in organic chemistry, unlike gen chem. If you're a visual learner and/or like to draw, orgo has the potential to be both fun & enlightening. Best science class(es) I took in college by far

    • @Quintinohthree
      @Quintinohthree 5 лет назад +6

      @@grannyspeachtea7764 See, there's your problem. You do need to understand formulas. If you understand that CnH2n+2 comes about from H-(CH2)n-H, then you will never forget it. Better yet, you will never need to learn that formula because you can derive it in no time.

  • @pieinyourface1
    @pieinyourface1 5 лет назад +15

    He was one of the better speakers I've heard on TED. Really good use of tone, fantastic way of summarizing literally the most complex topic that exists.

  • @MikeJamesMedia
    @MikeJamesMedia 5 лет назад +139

    Fascinating! I love these talks that introduce us to complex subjects in such a way that we can become interested in learning more. Thank you!

  • @busyrand
    @busyrand 5 лет назад +21

    This was my Favorite Course in my college years. I learned so much, and it shapes my perspective on things today. Outstanding talk!

  • @alit2086
    @alit2086 5 лет назад +166

    Beautiful presentation. But i still cry after every organic chemistry lecture 😂

    • @hersikolog2286
      @hersikolog2286 5 лет назад +3

      Alihan Türk 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

    • @pcuimac
      @pcuimac 5 лет назад +2

      Alihan Türk Beautiful things can still be hard.

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia 5 лет назад +1

      It might be due to some stray Syn-Propanethial-S-Oxide smeared on your classroom desk! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide

    • @Callmeromain2016
      @Callmeromain2016 5 лет назад +1

      Same 😢😢😫

    • @krystalphan8871
      @krystalphan8871 4 года назад

      me too!!! Especially the fking hard program that my fking country designed!

  • @vatsaltrivedi2755
    @vatsaltrivedi2755 5 лет назад +5

    Awesome... I was just waiting for a ted talk on organic chemistry to be delivered, because I am an undergraduate student, and wherever I go, I find people looking and underestimating this science with the same disregard as you rightly mentioned. A few times I tried my self to convince them about the importance of this science, but I don't think my convincing strengths are that strong. I am going to recommend this video to all whom I find unconvinced. Again, great talk Sir!

  • @mikemeyerphotopro
    @mikemeyerphotopro 5 лет назад +5

    If you were the only Organic Chemistry teacher, then everyone would love organic chemistry. Sure it's a difficult subject but a good teacher makes things easy. I failed general chemistry twice, spectacularly. Third time I had an amazing teacher who gave us real life examples of all the reactions. I got an A in the lab and a B in the class. We need more passionate, excellent teachers !!!

  • @Leona8Cooper
    @Leona8Cooper 5 лет назад +1

    This was great to see in person! Thanks for finally uploading it!

  • @robertdunlop4695
    @robertdunlop4695 5 лет назад +3

    Nicely done, thank you. I am so thankful for our local community colleges, and contributions like yours.

  • @thepedobear2790
    @thepedobear2790 5 лет назад +35

    Everyone can notice how nervous he was from his voice but he preformed perfectly

  • @AleksandraKloc
    @AleksandraKloc 5 лет назад +4

    This video, this man, everything in it is great! It was so awesome and so much fun for really anyone, someone who like topics like that or not really. Congrats ❤️

  • @starshot5172
    @starshot5172 5 лет назад +28

    I actually learned something from this for my upcoming study in chemistry. Wow

  • @incognitotorpedo42
    @incognitotorpedo42 5 лет назад +2

    Dang, that was a good presentation. The graphics made a big difference. Thanks for giving credit to the guy who did them. You two both did a great job.

  • @nathanchoi3763
    @nathanchoi3763 5 лет назад

    This introduction is like narrowing down an iron bar into an iron needle step by step in a nice manner, with occasionally elaboration on the excluded iron debris and comparison of it with other debris from other production. That hand shake and hand grip analogy is also nice.

  • @findme1232
    @findme1232 5 лет назад +10

    Ted has blessed us yet again

  • @melTiceTiger
    @melTiceTiger 5 лет назад

    The way he presents and talks about organic chem with fascination and excitement in his voice makes me want him as a professor.

  • @morganthem
    @morganthem 5 лет назад

    I could listen to him do this all day, fascinating

  • @a1xon
    @a1xon 5 лет назад +3

    More of these talks please. This is good old TED quality.

  • @ailish086
    @ailish086 5 лет назад

    Definitely showing my students this in September. Thank you.

  • @rimaastaginaa
    @rimaastaginaa 2 года назад

    Thanks so much for the explanation, sir 🙏🏻 love the way it's delivered.

  • @dawsonzentz2078
    @dawsonzentz2078 3 года назад +2

    Tips from someone who got an A in orgo 1 and am now taking orgo 2: orgo 2 is so far identical to orgo 1; it’s mainly synthesis (predicting products)... also, this will be for a class that is taken on MWF, not TTu... you should read every chapter before the lectures. If I were you, in the morning, watch the lectures for the day (or attend lecture), and take notes. Good notes. And that’s all. The next day, do the practice problems even if they aren’t assigned and attempt to understand the material. You have to work on orgo five days a week and honestly one or two days on the weekend. It is very time consuming but 100% not difficult. It’s just a TON TON TON of information, and that’s what makes it hard. Especially when you get to the final. My orgo 2 final this semester is 40% of my grade and I’m nervous, but that’s why you take good notes... good notes including writing the main mechanisms you learn, writing down tough nomenclature (naming molecules), and just doing practice problems. PRACTICE PROBLEMS ARE THE BEST WAY TO SUCCEED in orgo!!!!!! Can’t stress that enough. Pls reply if you have questions, I’d love to answer them :)))

  • @jerrylclement
    @jerrylclement 4 года назад +1

    One of my favorite classes. 1 and 2... I had an excellent teacher. He was a baker. Don't remember any of it...except that I love d it! I wish I had pursued it more.

  • @maryelizabeth7528
    @maryelizabeth7528 5 лет назад +1

    What a great and inspirational speaker!

  • @wunmix5999
    @wunmix5999 5 лет назад

    I didn't do uni organic chem. But I did do it at a level chemisty. I hated it for the first year, but then I started to understand it a little in the second and I started to love it. It was kind of like doing maths, scratching an itch or gently stretching.

  • @wdaehn
    @wdaehn 5 лет назад +1

    Great explanations. I learned something new today.

  • @SMEGMA42069
    @SMEGMA42069 5 лет назад +2

    As someone who has started to specialize in orgo for my research I definitely agree that there is a lot to love about the subject outside the horrors of the class. It really has to be hard for you to learn the volume of material, but you have that knowledge the application of it can be incredibly fun and interesting.

    • @unf3z4nt
      @unf3z4nt 5 лет назад

      Adam G.
      I would love to see the face of the layperson the moment the topics gets to molecular orbitals.

  • @majsatillul
    @majsatillul 5 лет назад

    Didn't expect to love this but I really do

  • @hiamigo78
    @hiamigo78 5 лет назад +1

    Gr8 video sir..this subject was boring n tough during school days..wish we had a teacher like u back then..

  • @MrAxlCosta
    @MrAxlCosta 4 года назад

    This is one of the best video I've ever seen about chemistry! :)

  • @jeffporubcan
    @jeffporubcan 3 года назад

    I really enjoyed this! TY!

  • @vadinhopsc
    @vadinhopsc 5 лет назад

    Organic chemistry is so interesting. We are run by this. And we have to pay attention to the influence of quantum mechanics on the fundamental processes, such as Krebs cycle and photosintesys. Fascinating, even if I'm not a biologyst.

  • @marcgreen007
    @marcgreen007 5 лет назад +3

    Wow. I really liked how this was done. Fun overview of an otherwise intimidating subject. So good.

    • @triple_gem_shining
      @triple_gem_shining 9 месяцев назад

      Only thing intimidating about it is the refractive index of your bald head

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 5 лет назад +25

    5:20 HONC HONC

  • @silenos9955
    @silenos9955 3 года назад

    Thanks a lot for your talk, Jakob Magolan!

  • @mvccree1541
    @mvccree1541 Месяц назад

    One of the best ted talks and most important. How much better would we be off as a society if people didn’t let fear mongering of “chemical” or “synthetic” or “pharmaceutical industry” get in the way of them educating themselves.

  • @reefk8262
    @reefk8262 5 лет назад

    ...amazing talk! thank you

  • @AJ3000_
    @AJ3000_ 5 лет назад +6

    I loved organic chem, I had some great teachers

  • @blue_tetris
    @blue_tetris 5 лет назад +144

    "Finally a video that's just about science without anything even tangentially political in it!"
    *one-tenth as many views, flat-earthers show up to complain anyway*

    • @akshatprakash871
      @akshatprakash871 5 лет назад +6

      Also one calling him a pharma stooge

    • @Anthony-jt2kh
      @Anthony-jt2kh 5 лет назад +2

      I’m sorry but there are plenty of channels on RUclips already made for solely science, and other countless platforms for study. TED is about showing us new ideas, and to look into things that change what we already know about reality.

    • @gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805
      @gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805 5 лет назад

      As of the time i posted this, there are only two comments even remotely political here, and one is yours.

    • @blue_tetris
      @blue_tetris 5 лет назад +2

      I didn't say there'd be a bunch of political statements here. I don't shy away from political discussions and no one should be downvoting all TED's videos willing to discuss those subject matters. What I'm saying is that these comments' sections have many people who claim to hate politics and love science; however, the view count for a video like this tends to wind up incredibly low. As it turns out, the people who spam TED videos just hate a certain kind of scientific inquiry that yields facts they don't like.

  • @freyayaoyao3560
    @freyayaoyao3560 Год назад +1

    This video makes me love and know more about organic chemistry. I will try my best to learn it.

  • @danikaptr
    @danikaptr 5 лет назад +11

    nice video! I actually kinda messed up with organic chemistry in high school but he showed me organic chemistry in a simple way w o w

  • @MyTutuorials
    @MyTutuorials 5 лет назад +1

    My favourite subject before medschool.

  • @imreb321
    @imreb321 5 лет назад

    Awesome video. Thank you

  • @incognitotorpedo42
    @incognitotorpedo42 8 месяцев назад

    "At this scale, math practically *touches* reality". That's a beautiful description!

  • @DonaldGonsalves
    @DonaldGonsalves 5 лет назад

    I wish I had a teacher like you when I studied Pharceutical Sciences

  • @capnsean8365
    @capnsean8365 5 лет назад

    I loved orgo. was told once that it's like being given the answer to a riddle and trying to figure out the original riddle.

  • @curts5508
    @curts5508 3 года назад

    To all of you considering this class. Do not underestimate it.. It's quite challenging. around half will drop the class. Hard work ethic, can-do attitude and dogged persistence should get you through. Some rather late nights as well. Although, it feels rather rewarding once completed

  • @AlphaeusNg
    @AlphaeusNg 5 лет назад

    Beautiful, simply beautiful

  • @xNayirix
    @xNayirix 5 лет назад +1

    Organic Chemistry courses were my favorite ones in college. =)

  • @basmabwzr
    @basmabwzr 5 лет назад

    THANK YOU !

  • @JGLCSW
    @JGLCSW 5 лет назад

    Oh, so I was weeded out because I couldn't pass this course not because I was always lit. Ted Ed never fails to teach me something new.

  • @lord7134
    @lord7134 5 лет назад +27

    Aye taking chem this fall.

    • @jesspalko2622
      @jesspalko2622 5 лет назад +1

      Make the best of it. You will miss it when it's gone. I sure do.

  • @MitchellWongHo
    @MitchellWongHo 5 лет назад +1

    If I had o-chem explained to me like this when I was at school (20-odd years ago), I would have been a confident person.

  • @camiladiaz4612
    @camiladiaz4612 2 года назад +1

    excelente video!!!!!

  • @shannonblalock436
    @shannonblalock436 4 года назад

    Awesome Video, damn good job!!!

  • @graemeroberts2935
    @graemeroberts2935 5 лет назад

    Wonderful!

  • @sayoshingeki6687
    @sayoshingeki6687 4 года назад +1

    Hey can you make vids from basic to advance level.orgaic chemistry so that everyone in this world would appreciate beauty of organic chemistry

  • @birdsdaword
    @birdsdaword 5 лет назад

    Good lecture for the general public.

  • @nadia.h8030
    @nadia.h8030 5 лет назад

    Very interesting.. Thx a lot

  • @keshanranasinghe
    @keshanranasinghe 5 лет назад

    Thanks!

  • @greogebrewer9643
    @greogebrewer9643 5 лет назад

    i toke general chemistry over 14 years ago and still remember most of it.

  • @friendsandpharma
    @friendsandpharma 5 лет назад

    Loved it😍💓

  • @ezza88ster
    @ezza88ster 5 лет назад

    Finally! I start to get a handle on it.

  • @athickie
    @athickie 4 года назад +15

    It has everything to do with the type of professor you had for Orgo. They could make or break your whole perception of the subject!

    • @triple_gem_shining
      @triple_gem_shining 8 месяцев назад +1

      And you're own ambition. Can you imagine some people learn this stuff for fun? Because of REAL interest? 😂

    • @athickie
      @athickie 8 месяцев назад

      @@triple_gem_shining 😂🤣 yeah I can’t relate them at all I hated OC w/a passion 😭

  • @Gittadone
    @Gittadone 5 лет назад

    Beautiful.

  • @Hussein_Nur
    @Hussein_Nur 5 лет назад +62

    Your audience cant stop coughing.

  • @vinaybichave2156
    @vinaybichave2156 5 лет назад

    Awesome!!

  • @ShukokaiStu
    @ShukokaiStu 3 года назад

    Brilliant!

  • @wombatpandaa9774
    @wombatpandaa9774 5 лет назад +1

    Dude, that was awesome. I feel much better prepared for Organic Chemistry now.

    • @curts5508
      @curts5508 3 года назад

      Good luck. Don't underestimate it. It's a LOT of material in a very short time. It breaks a lot of people. The first class my Dr professor stated 50% would eventually drop the class. her math was solid. lol

    • @wombatpandaa9774
      @wombatpandaa9774 3 года назад

      @@curts5508 dang, that's intense...funny thing is, in the 2 years since I made that comment, I still haven't take org, and because I chose to switch from health to tech, I probably never will 😂 might be just as well

  • @marvysanelruanovaldivia8683
    @marvysanelruanovaldivia8683 5 лет назад

    AMAZING

  • @X_platform
    @X_platform 5 лет назад +9

    Does anyone know what graphic program is used? I want to learn that.

    • @maniacalbarbarian
      @maniacalbarbarian 5 лет назад +1

      Came to comments to find out the same ...

    • @erikmjelde4428
      @erikmjelde4428 5 лет назад +3

      There is a free one called blender or you could check out 3ds max, maya, or the plenty of other 3d tools available.

    • @TheWWDproductions
      @TheWWDproductions 5 лет назад +1

      I used Lightwave3D. www.lightwave3d.com/. I'd highly recommend blender though.

    • @grannyspeachtea7764
      @grannyspeachtea7764 5 лет назад

      Wes Durlan - You want to suggest Lightwave to someone who wants to know what "graphic" program was used?

    • @TheWWDproductions
      @TheWWDproductions 5 лет назад

      grannyspeachtea yes that’s what I used to make the graphics you saw in this talk.

  • @Alrukitaf
    @Alrukitaf 3 года назад

    I’m still afraid of organic chemistry, but not quite as much as before. Great vid

  • @kendiashitiva5984
    @kendiashitiva5984 5 лет назад +1

    I actually enjoyed this.....

  • @bigfunshow342
    @bigfunshow342 5 лет назад

    Why do not work the web TED? Do you have same problem?

  • @sheikhmukarram7478
    @sheikhmukarram7478 5 лет назад

    sir you are amazing

  • @jesuisravi
    @jesuisravi 5 лет назад

    very good talk

  • @t.c.bramblett617
    @t.c.bramblett617 5 лет назад

    I LOVE SCIENCE and especially biochemistry

  • @caribaez5711
    @caribaez5711 4 года назад

    Even though I am a pretty nursing student almost to apply to nursing school, I can understand when you talk about epinephrine. Omg.

  • @Marinalopescardoso
    @Marinalopescardoso 5 лет назад

    amazing

  • @ramilurazmanov
    @ramilurazmanov 2 года назад

    The video is stunning😍

  • @matshepherd118
    @matshepherd118 5 лет назад

    I took O Chem with the "hardest" chemistry professor in the school and it was honestly way easier for me than Gen Chem 1 and 2.

  • @ianprado1488
    @ianprado1488 5 лет назад

    What a wholesome video

  • @Prachipatel0192
    @Prachipatel0192 5 лет назад

    If you mind TED Talks team, could you please add subtitle in the video for learners?

  • @moniraakther2578
    @moniraakther2578 2 года назад

    Can anyone suggest a organic chemistry book to feel chemistry or to love chemistry?

  • @peacemaker9850
    @peacemaker9850 5 лет назад

    Excellent

  • @MrJayPuff
    @MrJayPuff 5 лет назад

    Organic chemistry is way more fun than general chemistry it is still very challenging but definitely something to take if you can

  • @pinkalamin4238
    @pinkalamin4238 5 лет назад

    It's nice thanks

  • @lydiajoseph6029
    @lydiajoseph6029 3 года назад

    wow never thought organic chemistry this way

  • @these2menrgannadoit
    @these2menrgannadoit 4 года назад

    engaging speaker

  • @Martinit0
    @Martinit0 5 лет назад

    Would be interesting to hear what is the state of the art in organic chemistry these days. What kind of magic can you do in 2018?

  • @evilgenius97
    @evilgenius97 5 лет назад

    I listed Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon. When he asked what you think when you hear Organic Chemistry. Havent been in school years and still remember.
    Aslo Fallout 4, Synths..

  • @kpourhamidi
    @kpourhamidi 5 лет назад

    Wow!!

  • @atrimandal4324
    @atrimandal4324 5 лет назад +8

    Organic Chemistry is love❤️

    • @atrimandal4324
      @atrimandal4324 5 лет назад

      Kevin Mason Oh it's beautiful, and I kinda think why some people either hate it or love it to the extremes is because of how theoretical and pictoral and how mechanism based it is.

    • @atrimandal4324
      @atrimandal4324 5 лет назад

      Kevin Mason I'm sure you have the same level of passion for Organic Chemistry if not all of Science ❤️
      And well, as long as people loving Science keep loving Science just because it gives them a kick, it's in safe hands😂

    • @mesrega8020
      @mesrega8020 5 лет назад

      Atri Mandal all chemistry branches are Great ♥

    • @amihamada7494
      @amihamada7494 5 лет назад

      Hey I'm just started taking Organic chemistry, but I feel like I don't have a good material to study it with! Any suggestions or PDFs I can download??

  • @kathleentaylor8840
    @kathleentaylor8840 Год назад

    My mother had a condition technically a cancer called marginal T-zone lymphoma. Her cells were evaluated by a Stanford U. lab, her oncologist was Harvard-trained, not that either alone would have told me anything, just glad two different institutions were represented. For treatment, 100% of my mother’s B cells were replaced by a NEW drug at that time consisting in synthetic B cells, a literal B-cell transfusion, before her marginally-affected T cells, where her T cells had sustained marginal damage, were treated with a different chemo for twelve weeks. That was fifteen years ago, and never a recurrence of lymphoma. My mother is 92-years-old this year, and still relatively healthy.

  • @stepht1904
    @stepht1904 5 лет назад

    Can You Use a STM, to see the atoms of Epinephrine?

  • @deejaychi3443
    @deejaychi3443 4 года назад

    Thanks

  • @janegolden1807
    @janegolden1807 3 года назад

    have to write something about this for school im not gonna lie the words are going into one ear and coming out the other

  • @modernkennnern
    @modernkennnern 5 лет назад +5

    Organic Chemistry is the only part of chemisty I enjoyed.

  • @RedLikeAnOrange
    @RedLikeAnOrange 5 лет назад +1

    If the molecules are so small you can't see them, how do you know how many epinephrin molecules there are in the epipen?

    • @TheWWDproductions
      @TheWWDproductions 5 лет назад

      There are multiple ways to "see" something. While you can't use light to see an atom, you can use magnetism for instance.

  • @joshuamitchell5530
    @joshuamitchell5530 5 лет назад

    Why has his been reuploaded?

  • @quangthientran2450
    @quangthientran2450 4 года назад

    Help me, I want to see tapescripts this video.