The "Organic" Sailboat
Three reasons for this website:

(1) Education for all on organic chemistry, students and teachers, the material in this website is open for all it is public domain.

(2) Talk to a former high school and college educator...me, about organic chemistry.

(3) Promote myself to come and make a presentation at your school, ISD, or conference.

Abstract

The “organic sailboat”, entitled Let’s Go Sailing, is a mapping gimmick for chemistry teachers at the high school and college level of instruction. The mapping technique is an outline of the inter reactivity and synthesis of the 15 major types of organic molecules. It demonstrates the four major types of organic reactions: substitution, addition, oxidation, and elimination, along with the special reactions: Würtz, Cracking, Fuse, Neutralization, Hydrolysis, Dehydration, Grignard, and Esterification It is written in general terms and may be used with specific examples ie. starting with methane and going through the synthesis to a more complex organic molecule. It shows that the “key hubs” of reactivity are around carboxylic acids, alcohols and alkenes. The mapping is done along the template of a mizzen mast type sailboat from which I derived the name Let’s Go Sailing...

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