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.

"You are my Grignard"

Johanna Espenschied, Tatiana Rocha

Song: "You Are My Sunshine"

Artist: Norman Blake

The other night Grignard, as you were formed.
I dreamed of lonely alkyl halides,
but when I woke they were with magnesium
so now you were ready for reactions.

You are my Grignard my Grignard reagent,
you make alcohols when mixed with carbonyl compounds,
you'll never know grignard how much I need you,
so please don't take my carbon bonds away.

I will always love you and make you alkane
if you react with h 2 o.
so if you forget the carbonyl compound,
you'll be an alkane someday.

You are my Grignard my Grignard reagent,
you make alcohols when mixed with carbonyl compounds,
you'll never know Grignard how much I need you,
so please don't take my carbon bonds away.

You told me once carbonyls you really need me,
and no one else could react the way we do,
but now you attached me and reacted with water
to make the alcohols.

You are my Grignard my Grignard reagent,
you make alcohols when mixed with carbonyl compounds,
you'll never know Grignard how much I need you,
so please don't take my carbon bonds away.