You Must Bond With Me (Organic Chemistry Music Video)

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This is a parody of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me". As an extra credit project for our organic chemistry course, we were required to write a song about organic chemistry. Here's what we came up with:

Addition of X2 (halogens) Alkenes, polar solvents, tosylate and substitution.

Makers: Will De Vega, Edith Gusan and Amy Tran

You Must Bond with Me Lyrics

Youre in a flask with your double bonds, youre all set
To break some bonds and fill a new octet
But you dont have anything to react to

Im in a tube with my electrons and Im
Bonded to one of my many look-a-likes
You guessed it, I am one of those halogens

Youve got pi bonds
I get repulsive
Here comes my not so strong dipole moment
Put us together, well react and youll find that my
Twin and I are on different sides (of you)

Carbon chains with double bonds are alkenes
Add me in and we can make a really good te-e-eam
Just you and me.
You must bond with me.

Now, were in the same flask, let us deal
Ill share my electrons with yours thats if you feel
Like breaking your double bonds and forming two single bonds
With someone like me, yeah

And yet theres a catch whenever we meet up,
The polar solvent wants to take a shot,
In bonding with your positive charge,
Does it even know the key to your heart?

I broke your pi bond
We form a cycle
Youve got a charge and were still unstable
Coming from behind is my negative twin,
Who will take it away and save the day

But the pesky polar solvent is still there
Reminding me that I really dont want to share-e-e
But I still caree-e-e

Im floating here, waiting in excess
What---- will---- it ----take
Why cant you see
You must bond with me
You must bond with me

Oh, my excess should
Show you that I care
About your stability
Ill show you a benefit
Of having two of me.
Youll be able to join
In substitution games
Without needing to meet up
With that massive tosylate, yeah.

If you dont want to deal with tosylate and
Go through an extra step for sub-sti-tu-tion,
You and I are meant to be one.

Its me who can best prepare you
Alcohols are so not cool, dear alkene,
Why cant you see?
You must bond with me.

You must bond with me
Have you ever thought just maybe
Organic Chemistry is the way to be

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Taylor Swift
• Organic Chemistry
• Addition
• X2
• Halide
• Polar Solvent
• You Belong With Me
• substitution
• alkenes
• orgo
• project
• parody
• bromination
• halonion cycle

[lewischance]

@SpaceTime4D

Actually, polarization of the diatomic halogen does occur in proximity to the swirling pi electron cloud of the double bond of the alkene.

[rapevictimdean]

@SpaceTime4D

Even with the same electronegativity, London Dispersion Forces allow molecules to have a net dipole moment at any given instant.

[komodo26]

I'm pretty sure it's the Electron Pair on the water molecule not the Oxygen that attacks the Carbocation on the alkyl halide.

[Midtowner321]

Absolutely awesome!! I dint even do chemistry at this level but found it very jnteresting

[lewischance]

@picklechick103 Thanks, I do try ;-)

[picklechick103]

@lewischance wow that sounded really nerdy.

[bookworm260194]

This is the best video I've ever seen xD

[StormSnarlX]

this was so cute!!

[ZlatnoJaje]

It's midnight and im working on Ochem, logical thing to do.....search ochem videos! Good stuff btw!