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.

"Nice Nice Baby"

Genevieve Metzger, Amy Hoover, Mina Bevan, Sarah Harbov, Khyung Tak, Lindsay Gorman

Song: "Ice Ice Baby"

Artist: Vanilla Ice

It In C-H-M, We kick it

Nice Nice Baby
Nice Nice Baby

All right stop
Don't hesitate to listen
Organic's packed, with chemical addition
The electrons, of a nucleophilic pi bond
Attack electrophiles for a new sigma bond
What about Markovnikov?
Well-It's like this
The rich C's get richer, that's the way it is
For the carbon with more hydrogens, she gets more
The other's left with the same old score

Halogens
Like bromine and chlorine
Add to alkenes to make dihaloalkanes
Stereochemistry, the reaction occurs
Anytime they bond they come from different sides
The double bond it hinges
Out to the side
Picks up an H
A carbocation is made
If there is a problem
We can solve it
We check out the book in order to resolve it

Nice Nice Baby. . .Organic's
Nice Nice Baby. . .Organic's
Nice Nice Baby. . .Organic's
Nice Nice Baby. . .Organic's

Addition, of water to alkenes
It's done by hydration or oxymercuration
The water and alkenes
With the help of strong acid
Do they make?
Yes-they make alcohols
Oxymercuration instead of adding water
Adds H-g-O-A-C-2
The reactions done now
But don't forget the rich get richer, Markovnikov rules!