Why should you study organic chemistry?
Improving your awareness in cooking and cosmetics
Thanks to organic chemistry, you can enjoy a delicious scoop of rhum-raisin ice cream even when you are underage. Likewise, you can concoct a pear-scented perfume without any pears.
Resisting hoaxes
If you do not know how organic compounds get their names, you may get hoaxed by dangerous-sounding names like retinol, or, better yet, its nontrivial name (2E,4E,6E,8E)-3,7-dimethyl-9-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohex-1-en-1-yl)nona-2,4,6,8-tetraen-1-ol.
If you are given the option to choose between two products: an organic one and a synthetic one, which one would you choose?
If you are given the option to choose between two products: an organic one and a synthetic one, which one would you choose?