Chemistry Songs

Project Overview

These songs were written and performed by students in Dr. Otto Phanstiel's Organic Chemistry I and II Classes, starting in 1999, and still singing.

"A Whole New World"

Tyrone Favis, accompaniment

Song: "A Whole New World"

Artist: Disney?s Aladdin and Jasmine

I can show you a world
Of organic chemistry.
Listen, students, don?t worry
You?ll learn things to get you by.

Look and open your eyes.
Make a molecule with
Grignard, Gilman reagents
Using alkyl halides.

A whole new world.
A new bright lesson to review.
Just practice, you will know
It?s time to show
How this stuff is amazing!

A whole new world
A Gilman problem, we can do
First add Big L small i,
C?u?and I
And add it to an alkyl halide.

Now we sigh, it?s alright.
Have a confident feeling.
Reading, work, understanding
Puts an A right in your sights.

A whole new world.
(Set yourself up for success)
A million things in Chemistry.
(Then the problems get better)
We are here to show
That we all know
How to read a carbon?s chirality.

A whole new world
(Turn right hand left or right)
Measure the weights, and count them too.
(With your thumb towards the lesser)
Then scoop up one to three
If it cannot be,
Then it is an S chirality.

A whole new world.
That?s chemistry.
It?s in the book.
So take a look.
This is the key.
Organic
Chemistry!