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.

"This Is How We Do It (mechanisms)"

Kristen Teply, Diane Rodriguez, Serra Kazancioglu, Jessica Duchene, Eina Spence, Nayara Chagas, Jamie Wekar, Shari McGill, Mirnouve Domond

Song: "This Is How We Do It"

Artist: Montell Jordan

Its Friday night and were up all night
The party's here in the next room
But I reach for my book and I pick it up
Dehydrogenation is my date tonight
Mechanisms make me jaded
People in the class say Phanstiel we can make it
It feels so good to have it masterized
Ozonolysis will cleave a double bond
And the ketones dont further oxidize
You gotta get your study on before you get an A
So pick up your book and throw your hands up
And lets hear Phanstiel say. . .

I'm kinda buzzed and it's all because
This is how we do it
Phanstiel does it like nobody does
This is how we do it
To all the kids, organics almost over
This is how we do it
Lets flip the page and make some drugs
This is how we do it

This is how we do it, all mechanisms yield products
Reagents take it from here to there
You're an Anti-Mark or Markovnikov player
See H's been good to me, ever-y since I was a double bond
But now I'm a single bond, and I'm fully saturated with hydrogens ya'll

If you were from Phanstiels class then you would know
That I got a carbene and an alkene
To get me some cyclopropane
Whatever it is, mechanisms underway
So pick up your book and throw your hands up
And lets hear Phanstiel say

I'm kinda buzzed and its all because
This is how we do it
Phanstiel does it like nobody does
This is how we do it
To all the kids, organics almost over
This is how we do it
Lets flip the page and make some drugs
This is how we do it