"We are crazy because we have finished the whole organic chemistry"- Most chemistry teachers.
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting you the most boring, humongous and brain-eating topic ever - Organic chemistry. When I came to 11th grade, the only topic we could see and hear in chemistry was organic chemistry. It was not so boring at that time, but as time went past, things started to slip. If anybody saw us reading an organic chemistry book, one would think as if we are preparing for spelling bee. The reason being words like- the isomers, the metamers, the tautomers, the diasteriomers, the enantiomers, the conformers, the rotamers, the whatnotmers.
The one and only thing I like about organic chemistry is methane(CH4), simple and silly. Everyone's journey with organic chemistry starts with methane, so methane becomes like an old buddy. IUPAC is also irritating sometimes. Example - You spend an hour naming a complex compound, and in the end, you forget to remove the terminating vowel of the second last suffix (A rule in IUPAC).
The common mistake most of the people make while doing questions on organic chemistry is that they forget to consider chirality (pronounced "cheee- rallll - ity " by our chemistry teacher because he thinks it gives the rule some weight and respect), a property, in which if a carbon atom is connected to four different groups (carbon's valency being 4), then the same carbon compound can occur in two different forms. Usually people make this error while running out of time, because if you have time then you would sit and spend all your time checking with all the rules of IUPAC.
P.S - My fear is that, by the time organic chemistry finishes, even methane will have more than 100 isomers!
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