Why can we smell aromatic and cyclic compounds and why they are in rings instead of lines? Viewers learn about organic compounds, resonance, naming standards for aromatic compounds, common chemical reactions, and the many uses...

What is the difference in alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes? How can you remember which is which? Viewers learn about naming rules, cis-trans isomerism, hydrogenation, halogenation, polymerization, and triglycerides from a short video...

This short video covers the history of hydrocarbons and organic compounds, discusses the structures and properties of alkanes, isomers, and concludes with an explanation of naming alkanes based on their structure. 

Sal continues to work through examples of more complicated carbon chains in this second video of five.

Practice makes the concepts of naming much easier. Here, Sal runs through 5 even more complicated examples, while encouraging viewers to do the same. The main development explained here is the addition of multiple types of side chains to...

This is the fourth video in a series of five where Sal works through examples of more complicated carbon chains.

Learn the names for all molecules?!? Luckily, there is a simple naming convention to eliminate the need to memorize! Pupils learn the prefixes and naming patterns when identifying a molecule from its formula. The video gives several...

Fifteenth-century hunters used a unique vocabulary to describe the groups of animals they hunted. The video lesson shows many of these informal names. It turns out the names may not be official, but many people use them, including...

I asked the cat sitting next to me if he had any Sodium Hypobromite; he said NaBrO. The third video in the six-part series introduces how to name polyatomic ions such as Sodium Hypobromite. It offers the general rules and a few example...

Learning how scientists named chemicals can be as challenging as learning a foreign language! Chances are, you've used these names at least once or twice in class. From the video, learn how chemical compounds earn their names — no...

Sal continues to work through examples of more complicated carbon chains. He presents a complicated name and attempts to work through it logically, drawing the structure. His humor makes these strategies fun and easy to watch.

In the third of five videos, Sal continues to work through examples of more complicated carbon chains.

Sal "expands his repertoire" and starts to demonstrate the naming of long, complicated alkene chains.

There is a logical system in which to name carbon chains as described here. The naming system becomes more logical when there are more than five compounds in the chain. Understand the prefixes: iso-, sec- and tert-. [13:29]

Explains how to draw the structure for Butylcyclopentane in its various forms, and name them using common and systematic nomenclature with iso-, sec- and tert- prefixes. [13:33]