Organic Chem Anthem

Organic Chem Anthem
(to the beat of "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO)

By: Kayla Ciricillo & Danika Colarusso

Chorus:
Organic chem is in the house tonight
Hydrocarbons just have a good time
But we want you to stabilize
Conformations being analyzed

Organic chem is in the house tonight
Hydrocarbons just have a good time
But we want you to stabilize
So we wanna see you --rotate

In the lab, isomers rock, same empirical formula is what they've got
Rotate about their single bonds, changing conformations around the clock
Stereoisomers are their name, 3D shape changes --connectivity's the same
Is it more stable like this? I don't know. Let's find out. Here we go.

Yo. Take a look at the Newman Projection
Anti's stabler than gauche for the staggered conformations
We've got eclipsed, yeah, when torsion angle is zero
But all that torsional strain makes eclipsed way less stable

Chorus (x2)
Every day I'm staggerin'

Change up now
Let's bring the cycloalkanes in the house
Bond angles near 109.5°, if NOT
Strain gets bad

Rotate cyclohexane --it's ring inversion
First we've got the chair --most stable one
Add some energy --it's a boat now
Skew boat in between --then chair again

Cyclohexane, most stable, least angle strain
Axial up, axial down, equatorial all around
Flip that, ring now, equatorial and axial switch it up
Big branched groups go equatorial, less crowding, more stable

Cis, trans
Can't decide
Cis means
Same side
Trans is
Opposite
More stable
No steric
hindrance!

Hydrocarbons all around, all around
Hydrocarbons (x3)

Chorus

Credits
Song recording: Vince Angellilo
Filming: Debora Boemio

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[NeftaliPR]

This was painful. But then again, so is organic chemistry. Maybe that's the message??..

[LMFAOrganic]

@NeftaliPR aw that's very sweet, thank you.

[nonbeliever11]

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