Monthly Challenges

Participate in each monthly challenge to learn new skills and expand your knowledge. Explore the current challenge below, share your accomplishments on social media with the monthly hashtag, and check back soon for next month's challenge.

#ChemTour: Organic Chemistry

Get a little closer to chemistry each month with the 2022 #ChemTour. This month’s stop: Organic Chemistry

You know that organic chemistry is the study of all carbon compounds. Thanks to carbon’s ability to form chains and rings with itself in up to 4 different directions, over 90% of known compounds are organic. And organic compounds are in almost everything we use daily, like pens, computers, furniture, gasoline, food, and more.

Get to know orgo a little more this month!

Get to know orgo

• How To Survive Your Organic Chemistry Class
  Organic chemistry courses have a tough reputation. These inChemistry tips will help you through.
• Know Your Techniques: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)
  Need to run an NMR? inChemistry has the low-down on this essential organic chemistry tool.
• Infographics: Organic chemistry
  Learn about everything from naming compounds to Nobel Prize-winning research, from Compound Interest

ACS technical divisions

• Carbohydrate Chemistry (CARB)
  Deep dive into the chemistry of sugars, starches, and all other C_x(H₂O)_x compounds
• Organic Chemistry (ORGN)
  One of the oldest and largest technical divisions, it is also a source of funds, awards, and the new Organic Chemistry Data repository

Careers

Wondering what a career in organic chemistry could be? Find out with these inChemistry and Career in the Chemical Sciences career profiles:

• Corporate strategy: Vartika Joshi
• Freelance science translator: Karen Tkaczyk
• Chemical Safety Program Manager: Brandon Chance
• More profiles form Careers in the Chemical Sciences

Journals

Want to catch up on the latest organic chemistry research? These journals are the go-to place for organic chemists!

• The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  
• ACS Applied Polymer Materials
• ACS Organic & Inorganic Au (open access)
• ACS Polymers Au (open access)
• Organic Letters
• Organic Process Research & Development
• Organometallics