Hello professor! I'm currently studying biomedicine. Why is organic chemistry such a horse shit course?
I jest, but seriously. Seems like everyone in the world agrees it's a bloated beast. Why is it not shaved down to something more reasonable? Why is it not updated with modern nomenclature that doesn't use a mix of Latin, Greek, German and Bullshittinian? Why can't the notation system be updated so we don't have to draw 7 different resonance structures? The freaking literature itself admits they don't exist and that it's just a shortcoming in the notation that forces us to draw them because people didn't know it existed when the system was developed!
... I'm sorry. I used to enjoy chemistry. They killed it for me.
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Hello professor! I'm currently studying biomedicine. Why is organic chemistry such a horse shit course?
I jest, but seriously. Seems like everyone in the world agrees it's a bloated beast. Why is it not shaved down to something more reasonable? Why is it not updated with modern nomenclature that doesn't use a mix of Latin, Greek, German and Bullshittinian? Why can't the notation system be updated so we don't have to draw 7 different resonance structures? The freaking literature itself admits they don't exist and that it's just a shortcoming in the notation that forces us to draw them because people didn't know it existed when the system was developed!
... I'm sorry. I used to enjoy chemistry. They killed it for me.