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Verse 1

Now and then I think of when we were a compound

Told me you were so stable you could die

Said that you were right for me

I should have known from electronegativity

But that was love and it’s a bond I still remember

Verse 2

You can be addicted to a certain kind of charge

Like electrostatic force, always a force

So when you said that we could not share bonds

I was sad you took my electron

But I’ll admit that I was glad to be an ion

Chorus

But you didn’t have to take it all

Take away my electron like we were nothing

I don’t even need your charge

But I’m still attracted and it feels so hard

No, you didn’t have EN (electronegativity) so low

To become so negative and create a lattice

Guess we’ll be orthogonal

Now you’re just an ion that I used to know

Verse 3

Now and then I think of all the times I tried to share 

You had me believing it was something I could’ve undone 

But I don’t want to live that way

Not fitting my periodic space

Said that you could let e- (electron) go 

Verse 1

Step right in and I’ll tell you all about

The science of chemistry to turn your life around

First lesson gonna be about rates

All the factors about our reaction we can change

The first thing that you gotta know

Reactants can’t move too slow

That is to say they gotta have energy

Sufficient to get close and comfy

And overcome the repulsion they feel

From each other’s electron clouds, for real

Another thing that’ll make a reaction ring

Is orientation in space, you know I mean

They gotta align so the products are faced

They’ll become intermediates from a transition state

Then break apart to completion

Unless it’s equilibrium but that we ‘aint teachin’

Moving right along in this kinetics song

We talkin bout rates and their goings on

ortho, meta, para it don’t matter where we at

Chemistry is all and this is the chem attack

Number of particles is next on the list

The more there are the more they zip

Into each other increasing their chance

Of a good reaction in the atom dance

Temperature is a factor

That can lead particles to a power reactor

The hotter they are the faster they move

Brownian motion to continue their groove 

One more thing is surface area

To lead molecules to reaction hysteria

The more space the better where collisions occur

Increases the chances for energy transfer

Verse 2

Now let’s talk about intermediates

Products-reactants we gettin serious

They don’t stick around long before reacting again

Elementary steps of a full reaction

The overall energy is the enthalpy

But that’s thermodynamics and not talked about here

Kinetics and thermo are pretty tight

But they different as well you better get it right

Activated complex is really sick

Products and reactants getting in the mix

They’re merged into one but it’s existence is fast

Before it makes products or to reactants falls back

The name of the game is energy

Of activation variety for specificity

If reactants can overcome that barrier

They’ll fly through that hump and come out the exterior

Carbene, carbyne, carban, carbocation

Free radicals, tetrahedral companion

Only other thing more radical than free

Is anti-oxidants to make your body feel neat

To see intermediate you’ll need a fast laser

Femtosecond timescale and you can’t be lazier

That kind of time is shorter than a blink

It’s impossible to comprehend

 it’s too fast to think

Don’t forget that the easier to go forward

The bigger E-A for the reverse, it’s slower

That hill becomes so big it don’t seem like it’ll ever happen

But there’s a small proportion, it’s distribution is Gaussian

Breakdown

The rate of a reaction is defined as the change in concentration of a product or reactant divided by the change in time. Rates are always positive quantities and the rate of the forward reaction is equal to the rate of the reverse. In the forward case the concentration is decreasing (as reactants are used up) and in the reverse case the concentrations increase (as products are formed).

Verse 3

Now let’s look at catalysts

Speeding up reactions we on top of it

But these guys here don’t react overall

They’re regenerated or inert that’s all

These dudes be lowering barriers

For back and forth reactions you know they’re carriers

For reactants to find lower energy pathways

To get to products faster you know they always

Increase the amount of particles that can react

A big area below the curve: math attack

Maxwell-Boltzmann govern these gas

And catalysts allow more reactions from the graph

Hetero and homogeneous 

Two types of catalysts for you enthusiasts

Hetero exists in a different phase

Homo matches it’s surroundings because it’s the same

Acid catalyzed esterification

Homogenous catalysis they’re both in a liquid station

Platinum dioxide for hydrogenation

Be def hetero 2 phases in the equation

A biological example is in your enzymes

Their active sites give your body a good time

At breaking down food into smaller peptides

Verse 1

Science of life is the organic branch

Curly arrows follow the electrons expand

Into orbitals bonding or not

Cause instability molecular rot

Mechanism for cycloaddition shows 

protonation on the middle carbon, bros

Cycloalkene shows small carbanion

Nucleophilic organic abstraction

Grignard reagent is afraid of water

carbon-carbon bonds, conjugation means colour

Delocalize the electrolytes, hydrolize as it dries, then oxidize to polarize

Make an alcohol from an alkene

Get the reaction mixture and pump in some steam

Remove the product to increase the yield

Then party all night with the ethanol you wield

Chorus

Rap -Organic chemistry

Mostly only deals with main group elements

Yet it’s one of the largest branches of chemistry

hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon

Sung- nucleophilic substitution

Putting leaving groups into solution

Racemic mixture or complete inversion

You better keep track of which side it reacts on

Verse 2

Diels-Alder deals with dienes turning to cyclo

Electron-withdrawing helps make it go

Adding Lewis acid can bring it home

Like Cyclopentadiene reacts with cyclohexanone

Functional group role call 

to help us remember that all

Amines have nitrogen, amides do too, one has a carbonyl, try to guess who

Aldehyde is terminal, ketone is not, carbonyl just chills til nucleophile is brought

I greatly enjoyed this part of the course. The main reason I wanted to do a media project was as a way to prove to myself that learning does not solely occur in formal settings. Making a song about a topic would be a great way to study for an exam or test because I found myself making word lists to try and help with rhyming. I feel that using media projects in school would be helpful and engaging for any subject. 

I also gained an appreciation for just how difficult it can be to write rap songs as I found myself thinking I had enough lyrics only to discover I still needed words for the other 3 minutes of audio. Writing the lyrics was the most challenging part of the project because it was the "bread and butter", which reaffirmed for me that this type of exercise is beneficial because the hardest part relates to school subject and not the actual process. Recording was very simple, I had the necessary cable to connect my guitar to my computer but Garageband has a large number of pre-recorded instruments, which could be used to create a song just as easily (as I did in Kinetics Song) if the user is not familiar with a musical instrument that can be plugged in and recorded. The majority of time was spent on the writing and recording the lyrics as I came up with simple music for Organic Rhythm and Kinetics Song and I already had music arranged for An Ion That I Used To Know. 

The third and final song for my Media Project is a cover of Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know with altered lyrics that focus on ionic bonds. The story is that of an Alkali metal and a Halogen getting upset with each other because the metal didn't realize that the electron wouldn't be shared. 

The second entry in my Media Project is inspired by chemical kinetics (grade 12 chemistry). 

The first song for my Media Project, inspired by grade 12 organic chemistry (as well as some 1st and 2nd year university stuff).