Annoying Peeve: Naming substances after the institution at which they are discovered sucks.

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7. Well actually, I remember when we had to buy books on named reactions. One of the fun things about March's...

Advanced Organic Chemistry was that the names of reactions were stripped away in favor of a mechanistic description.

Personally, that was probably a better way to teach Organic Chemistry. One of the things that always annoyed me when non-chemists who talked about having to take organic chemistry for some other field complained "it's all memorization."

No, it's all mechanism, I think. Somewhere in my library is Lowry and Richardson's Theory and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry.

Organic synthesis used to be my life, but it's been many years since I even opened an organic chemistry monograph. I ended up in analytical chemistry, something of a surprise to me, but I got here by being there I guess.

Sigh...