My Benzene Ring

You're going to love Organic Chemistry a lot more when you have this fun song! It's not just studying Organic Chemistry; it's a dance party! (words below)

Ortho! Substitute 1 and 2
I say Meta! Substitute 1 and 3
I say Para! Substitute 1 and 4
O, M, P! Now sing with me!
(repeat)

(It's fun to sing about)
CHORUS:
My Benzene ring (It's fun to sing about)
My Benzene ring
Substitute methyl in
And you have toluene
-NH2 for Aniline
(It's fun to sing about)
My Benzene ring (It's fun to sing about)
My Benzene ring
Add -OH for phenol
Phenyl's missing an H
-NO2 makes nitrobenzene

Benzene is unusually stable
It's cyclic, planar, and hexagonal
A hybrid with two resonance structures
Of course, it's conjugated

Huckel gave us 4n+2
He said n is integers that you choose
So just count up all the pi electrons
2, 6, 10 are aromatic, just like

(CHORUS)

Listen! make a bromobenzene
Add Br2 and FeBr3
Or add Chlorine
Cl in place of Bromine
They're EAS reactions

Start out with a halobenzene
Add a strong base, like sodium amide
The solvent is ammonia liquid
Voila! It's aniline! (It's fun to sing about)

(CHORUS)

My Benzene ring (It's fun to sing about)
My Benzene ring
2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene
Is also known as TNT
We get a blast from
My Benzene ring
My Benzene ring

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Education

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[goonygrl19]

u are so talented and helpful! thank you for this!

[dudea729]

looooool I really love this song. Keep it up, can you do this for all parts of the the A2 chemistry course please?? I love my benzene ring, thank you and I love aniline which sounds like Anerley:) <3

[studystove]

omg lol