"Chem is cool....if you like drug addictions...."

Chemistry has been quite the interesting class these last couple days. Yesterday, we spent a good amount of time learning how to build molecules of caffeine, nicotine, codeine and cocaine. Great fun! We then spent almost an hour talking about 1 of the 5 groups we intended to cover in our notes. Completely avoiding ethers, aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids, we spent that hour taking about alocohols. Think that says something about where some people's minds are?

Today we had a "Code Red" drill test during chemistry, and it was decided we should definitely be in chem if there is ever a real "Code Red" threat because we have a small storage room to hide in. When we got back out from the storage room, we finished covering those groups that just happened to be left behind yesterday (and of course people had to complain that it was taking forever to get through them....and whose fault is that?).

That's my rant on the randomness of chemistry these last two days, and I'll end this blog with a quiz. Name each of the following four compounds by their more common (household) name:

1. CH2O -- methanal
2. (CH3)2CO -- 2-propanone
3. C2H4O2 -- ethanoic acid
4. C4H8O2 -- butanoic acid (this one's a tough one)