Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas
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Description: These are four somewhat bawdy (if you're a molecule) plays illustrating organic chemistry reaction mechanisms.
Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas! Offered here for your enjoyment are four short organic chemistry plays that illustrate reaction mechanisms. These were performed in an actual organic chemistry class. You are free to use them in your class. (If you do, let me know how it turns out). The students wore signs around their necks identifying their parts in the drama. Electrons were drawn on posterboard and exchanged where appropriate. Bonding was illustrated by having the participants hold onto the electrons being shared. When asking for parts, the students would say, "Just don't give me any girl parts (or boy parts)." I would tell them that there weren't any girl parts or boy parts, just atom parts. Most of the students really enjoyed the dramas and competed for parts... but be warned! I had to discontinue the plays because a student complained to the Dean that the plays were sexually offensive, even though: (1) the students were repeatedly reminded that atoms and molecules don't have gender and (2) students never touched each other and (3) these plays aren't nearly as raunchy as Shakespeare!
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| Page title: | Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas |
| Keywords: | organic chemistry, plays, drama, reaction mechanisms, boron, electrophile, nucleophile, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, bromine |
| Description: | Here are four short plays illustrating organic chemistry reaction mechanisms: Electrophilic Addition, Becoming an Alcohol, A Blind Date with the Bromine Twins, and Adorable Borane. |
| IP-address: | 98.139.135.198 |
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| Date | Creation Date: 11-feb-1999 Expiration Date: 11-feb-2017 |