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.

"My Name Is (Carbon)"

Hillary Wolfe, Brittany Bottone

Song: "My Name is"

Artist: Eminem

Hi! My name is (what) my name is (who) my name is?Carbon
Hi! My name is (what) my name is (who) my name is?Carbon
Hi! My name is (what) my name is (who) my name is?Carbon
Hi! My name is (what) my name is (who) my name is?Carbon

Hi kids, do you like organic chem?
Wanna see me stick 9 functional groups on each end of a carbon?
Wanna copy me and see if you can get a better grade than I did?
My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin to get my head straight
But I can't figure out which carbon I want to hydrogenate
And Dr. P said, 'You should know, that's basic'
I need to study more its time to face it
Well I'm still working on chapter twelve
So lets talk about something else
I remember being pretty good at Grignard
So that might have been someone else
You take an alcohol and break it apart and then
You see your Grignard in a little box and then
Take an aldehyde; it always looks like a capital Y
Then the Grignard acts like a nucleophile and attacks the carbonyl
Just add some water or some H 3 O
And there ya go'ya got your primary alcohol

Hi! My name is (what) My name is (who) My name is?Carbon
Hi! My name is (what) My name is (who) My name is?Carbon
Hi! My name is (what) My name is (who) My name is?Carbon
Hi! My name is (what) My name is (who) My name is?Carbon