The 610 Blues
It all started out
With NMR
That nuclear spin stuff
Was fairly bizarre
Next came carbonyls
Aldehydes and ketones
It went on forever
Just like the Rolling Stones
Carbonyls make sense
Not like your last date
Attack with a nucleophile
Or just protonate
We moved on to acids
Not the kind our parents took
But the kind that make esters
Now we'starting to cook.
REFRAIN Mechanism, mechanism
They're not a bad as they
seem
Just keep track of the
protons
No need to call.......Jim
Beam
We then added base,
And boy is was great
We made a nucleophile
Called an enolate
Enolates were a blast
Making bonds by the score
There was aldol and Claisen,
Michael and more
Too many reactions
Pretty hard to take
That's why most of you
studied
Alcohols for Thanksgiving
break
We met a reagent
Diethyl malonate
Just hydrolyze the esters
And decarboxylate
REFRAIN Synthesis, synthesis
Shouldn't really be a shocker
Just practice working
backwards
No need to call...Johnny
Walker
But you made it through
It got understood
Can you say tautomerization
I knew you could.
¹-electron conjugation
Sounds like an X-rated movie
But really explains
That aromaticity is groovy
Aromatics react
It doesn't take King Kong
They substitute electrophiles
Only if they are wicked
strong
Orientation rules are easy
On that you can beta
Good and ugly direct
ortho-para
Bad directs meta
REFRAINReactions, reactions
You should spout them like a
geyser
Just put them on a roadmap
No need to
call.......Budweiser
Now that its over
Our song here is done
We hope your have found
That chemistry can be fun
It may not help you
To get a better date
But chemistry surrounds us
That we must appreciate
For the rest of your life
We hope that you can say
Chemistry is cool
The organic way!