Self-org-chem

Welcome to our ORGANIC CHEMISTRY RESOURCE PAGE

an interactive site and resource center for lecturers and students of organic chemistry of college and university levels.

Not enough time to prepare your slide show lectures?

Too much poor quality web org chem visuals for high standard lectures?

Tired of simplistic approaches to org chem concepts?

Overwhelmed by dispersed information in the web?

We proudly present our SELF-ORG-CHEM RESOURCE PLATFORM for the smart LECTURER OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY in need of updated spearhead teaching technological aids in popular and advanced topics of current university syllabus

THIS IS WHAT WE OFFER:

1.- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Lectures in ADVANCED Microsoft POWERPOINT slide shows using our best chemical and graphic design criteria. See quick list Some are free downloads

60-90 & 120 min presentations, animated and interactive, at basic and advanced levels. Free samples available. Click here for a descriptive list or go to "powerp lectures" tab above to see list and downloads.

2.- Complete scripts for each lecture in textbook style, with embedded quizes.

3. Problem sheets and printables

4. Problem of the month: from simple to challenging reaction mechanisms

Click here for this month problem

We are constantly adding new lectures, slides, mechanistic problems and educational activities so be sure to visit our site frequently.

TWO SHORT EXAMPLES

Each lecture contains 20 - 35 slides like the one at right.

These slides give a full color picture of the particular concept shown in the title. In this case, how the pi bond comes about and its preferential manner to react with other compounds.

Now carry on and have a taste of Motion and color effects for best educational impact by DOWNLOADING THIS FREE SLIDE,

Sitback and enjoy the automatic movie. Just imagine the impact on students of a lecture with 20 - 30 slides like this one!

If you liked the previous slide, try this one at right. We have added voice with comments as the arguments are presented. This is an illustration of what you can achieve in class.

DOWNLOAD it now. It's free.

At the moment our lectures are not voiced. We believe that the lecturer should speak all along using the slide show as support. For this we have written a detailed "script" with text, figures and schemes to guide your through.

For a sample of one such SCRIPTS, DOWNLOAD it here. It's FREE.

SELF-ORG-CHEM IS MUCH MORE THAN A SERIES OF LECTURES. IT IS A NEW CONCEPT.

Yes, PowerPoint slideshow-based seminars and lectures have been around for some years now. But in our experience, their design is no more than an extension of the typical blackboard scribbling in somewhat refined terms. Static images, little action, little color, as if tasteful art and good science could not go hand in hand, together.

In a world so dominated by images, multimedia, console games and brilliant web pages and blogs, Dull PowerPoint lectures fall short of students expectations and do not exploit the tremendous potential of this wonderful tool.

We have tried our best to combine chemistry and artistic design through experienced experts and added the key components shown at left, including a textbook-style script describing the concepts displayed in each slide to guide the lecturer through his/her presentation. So you don't have to work this out, it's all there.

Teaching the fun (but serious) way

Organic chemistry is far from the boring, plumbic subject so many students hate to their guts. Not only is a fascinating science, so fundamental for understanding nature, industrial materials, pharmaceuticals, physiology, toxicity, body and food chemistry, nanomaterials etc, but an inmensely fun field to explore and play around with. Look at the picture below. It is no hoax...

What you see at right (after adding a little bit of artwork) is a “dancing couple" of happy molecules among several others fittingly called Nanoputians, little people-like compounds. These are not coffee table wonderings you draw on a paper napkin in a rainy afternoon but real things synthesized by prof James Tour and coworkers of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and published in J. Org. Chem and J. Chem. Educ.

These nanoputians are perfectly useless materials except for their role to show how far you can go with organic synthesis these days, even for a purely ludic reason. More serious projects such as a molecular car with a rotating engine, wheels and all have seen light more recently (the nanocar) in professor Tour's lboratory.

Don’t miss this fun-loaded story. DOWNLOAD THIS SLIDE for FREE.

Insert it in your lectures if you wish- Just give us the credit

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