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About Us - Organic Chemistry Tutor

"Organic Chemistry Tutor" is a site run by a two-person team. It started as a project made for a websites' contest organized by a high-school from a non-US country in 2002. Needless to say, the website won the respective contest.

We've then published it on the high-school server and, much to our surprise, managed to rank 2nd for the term "chemistry" in Google in that respective language. We've then thought "Hey, why not translate it in English so more people could benefit from its contents?". But that wasn't as easy as it first seemed, since we weren't familiar with the English chemistry jargon. Fortunately, we've managed to find someone that was somewhat familiar with it and that was kind enough to do the translation for us. The translation didn't go as smooth as we wanted and that's the main reason for some of the English mistakes you might find while browsing the site, mistakes we'd love to fix in case you find the time to report them to us (info[at]organic-chemistry-tutor.com).

Thanks for taking the time to read this page,
The "Organic Chemistry Tutor" team.

Did you know that:

» pharmaceutics as an industry started in the 1890s when aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) was first produced by Bayer in Germany?

» at the beginning of the 19th century, chemists thought that compounds from living organisms were too complicated and were driven by "vitalism"?

» in organic chemistry, unlike inorganic chemistry, in order to properly classify a chemical compound you'll have to describe the relative position of atoms within the molecule?

» the discovery of petroleum and its separation according to boiling intervals gave birth to the petrochemical industry and thus to rubbers, adhesives, plastics, additives etc.?

» biochemistry is a science studying the chemistry of living organisms?

» Othmer Zeidler first prepared DDT in his laboratory in 1874, even though its real strenghts as an insecticide were discovered much later?

» the carbon nanotubes are one of the strongest materials known?