Organic Chemistry III

Professor Carl C. Wamser

O Grignard The Beautiful

Featuring the 101 (approximately) voices of
The Chemistry 335 Class at Portland State University

Recorded February 3, 1999
(Thanks to Conrad Hamilton)

The carbonyl is polarized
The carbon end is plus.
The nucleophile will thus attack
The carbon nucleus.
The Grignard makes an alcohol,
Of types there are but three.
It makes a bond
To correspond
From C to shining C.

Lyrics by Frank Westheimer (Harvard University)