378 Mount Pleasant Organic Chemistry Tutors

...Entering college wishing to major in biology, I initially took a number of biology courses prior to switching to the chemistry track. I am well-suited to tutor any introductory biology course, in addition to biochemistry. While my passion is organic chemistry, I have a great deal of experience tutoring general chemistry for high school students... read more

...In my two years as a tutor at the university, I have worked with about 30 students for a cumulative 50 hours. As a tutor, I focus on highlighting overarching concepts such as electron delocalization in organic chemistry, the conditions of constant velocity in physics, and the electronic character of atomic nuclei in general chemistry. By coupling... read more

...While I will be the first to say that these subjects are not my primary expertise (and if learning these subjects is your primary goal I would recommend a different tutor), I am more than able to include instruction in these subjects as part of a more comprehensive, multi-subject tutoring experience. I ran cross country / indoor track / outdoor... read more

...Thanks for reading me over! I look forward to hearing from you, and taking any questions. I received my B.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2008) in chemistry. As an undergraduate, I took 15 credit hours of organic chemistry classes, including: organic chemistry I and II, Organic Analysis, and Advanced organic chemistry), and maintained a 3.59/4.0 GPA for these... read more

...There I obtained the first DFT (Density Functional Theory) calculations of all 8 DNA/RNA (A,T,G,C/U) nucleotides (structural optimization and Normal Coordinate determinations); to be used as input for a set of Polarizability Optical Activity calculations on oligo-nucleotides (utilizing DeVoe theory). I also "T.A.'d" a Health Science course covering... read more