General chemistry concepts

Noble gases (and other atoms’ jealousy of them)

Polarity and InterMolecular Forces (IMFs)

Osmolarity, tonicity, & predicting solvent flow – with some biochemistry implications & examples

The Ideal Gas Law

Raoult’s Law and vapor pressure depression

Freezing point depression

Dry ice science – it’s sublime! and spooky…

Rosalind Franklin and carbon

Acids, bases, and pH

pH buffers & the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation

Party popper chemistry

Balancing chemical equations

Thermodynamics and free energy

Ionic strength and salt effects on binding and solubility

Dalton’s law of partial pressures

Evaporation, vapor pressure, boiling point, etc.

Oxidation numbers

Candles, combustion, and waxes

Light, chromophores, and changing leaf colors

Radioactivity from a biochemistry perspective: nuclear isotopes, nuclear decay and radiolabeling

Fireworks & thermodynamics

Instant cold packs – cool thermodynamics!

Organic chemistry concepts

Nucleophilicity & basicity

Nucleophilic acyl substitutions – swapping what’s hooked up to carbonyl C’s

O-chem vs. Biochem – oh so related, yet oh so different!

Nucleophilic substitution

Cool carbonyl chemistry

Calculations & techniques

Molarity & other concentration units

Working with molecular weights and concentrations

Significant figures

Logarithms & exponents

Reporting error

Standard curves

Dimensional Analysis

Working with metric conversions & scientific notation in lab calculations

C1V1=C2V2

Standard deviation & standard error

Serial Dilutions

The many “colors” of chromatography, especially TLC

Practice calculations: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_nhpBnrNA0AwLwgxYYA00m7HdRNI_yT6?usp=sharing

Cheat sheet for important lab calculations: https://bit.ly/importantlabmath & walkthrough video: https://youtu.be/Mif-P82BhWs 

Cheat sheet for molecular weights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TqCRh23TO8s5T23DjBcJeCUWl23ps9sI/view?usp=sharing     

Cheat sheet concentrations:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v7pff7cEpJTvr-IADLwdwwFOlEDdz8Ny/view?usp=sharing