Reaction of the week

I've been hesitant to commit to this, but now I suppose that I am, so go cry about it or something. The textbook I was using earlier is in Seattle right now anyway and I (at this point in time) am not. But my vision for this blog was never "Stephen Bahl condenses a textbook for you" or whatever. To be fair, I did post about some of my old labs and such. Alright, so it wasn't much, but surely it broke the monotony somewhat. And the textbook was really only ever a tool for me to introduce concepts from organic chemistry. That was what happened here. You're still confused? Try to keep up. I should explain. Fine. I will. What is wrong with you? Okay, new paragraph: go.

I am now stating it explicitly for you: this blog will change. It will continue to exist and it will continue to be written by me. It will continue to cover topics in chemistry. Those things will remain the same. They are not what is changing. Starting in January, the theme of this blog will be "reaction of the week." And I will keep it up for the duration of the year. This means that next year, I will blog about no less than fifty-two reactions. Fifty-two. 52. LII. Zweiundfünfzig. That's a lot. But it's happening. I've said I'm going to do it, so now it's too late to back down.

Not all of these will necessarily be reactions from organic chemistry. I won't mind throwing in the occasional inorganic reaction or whatever. But I have a stack of index cards in my desk right now with what appears to be upwards of seventy reactions from my organic chemistry class back in 2008. So yeah, it's not like I'm going to run out of reactions for this. 2011 shall be the year of the reaction. Or something. Oh yeah.