Amandeep Bains says:

Wow Ezen! I love how you implemented some encouragement into the text of your module for Ochem newcomers.

You might want to comb through the module once more to fix some of the grammatical typos… just to make your ideas flow better. For example, in your first paragraph you might want to try: Organic molecules can get complicated and large. It’s a tedious and daunting task to have to constantly draw out every detail (especially when not necessary), so the o-chemists of the past have developed these techniques to make the drawing and understanding of these molecules more convenient and easy.

Also, one of the chlorine atoms in the section where you introduced wedges and dashes didn‘t get labeled.

You did mention Lewis structures once, but I think it’d really help to draw one figure out just so that the difference is more apparent between a Lewis structure and straight line. You could also indicate how its okay for some molecules to have an overall charge; and maybe even mention something about formal charge.

Also, you should mention that if a carbon in a condensed formula doesn’t have 4 bonds by the time you reach the next hydrogen on the right, then its possible that the structure contains a multiple bond between the two. For example: CH3COOH means CH3-C(=O)-O-H, not CH3-C-O-O-H.

Good luck!

Posted 21:36, 10 Mar 2009