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Episode 66: Dr. Neil Garg on Reimagining Organic Chemistry
March 9, 202620 min · 3,959 words
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Organic chemistry has a reputation for being one of the most challenging college courses—but what if it could also be interactive, accessible, and even fun? On this exciting episode of Let’s Talk Chemistry edited by Jasmine Winter, hosts Jasmine Winter and Elizabeth Li share the story of Dr. Neil Garg, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr.
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by the time I took organic chemistry in my second year, that's really probably the first time I ever took a science class that just intuitively made sense to me, and it wasn't, you know, to me, it just wasn't a lot of memorization.
“We published a study on how to make so-called anti-bred olefins, and it was published in Science, which is a very good journal. And it was kind of exciting because it was breaking a rule that's taught in organic chemistry textbooks, and it got news coverage all over the world.”
“We teach them how to decipher structures so they can look at what we call a bond line structure. And they know what that means, where the carbon is, how many hydrogens are on each carbon. We teach them how to do that. And then we also teach them how to assign stereocenters.”
“if you have two people on a project, it's like their brain power is like four times and not just double. So if you have two people working together, the intellectual output, I think, turns out to be really high.”
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