My Favourite Things (II)

Radicals and SN2 substitutions,
Kc expressions and buffer solutions,
Haworth projections of pyranose rings -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Manganate (VII) that looks like Ribena,
Models of membranes made out of pipe-cleaners,
Programmes on CHIME about haemoglobin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Weird fruity smells from esterification,
Reflux condensers and redox titrations,
Dichromate (VI) when it’s oxidising -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Standard electrodes, cell statements, salt bridges,
Benzene in petrol, CFCs in fridges,
NMR spectra and nuclear spin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Born-Haber cycles and mole calculations,
Rate laws and stoichiometric equations,
Maxwell and Boltzmann and Hess and Pauling -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Transfers of protons in acids and bases,
Eluants, solvent fronts, stationary phases,
Lock-and-key models and chymotrypsin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Beta-D-glucose and glycine and valine,
Loud orange azo dyes and phenolphthalein,
Complexes with transition metals in -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Bright-coloured flame tests of alkali metals,
Aldehydes, ketones and hemiacetals,
Enzyme cofactors and B vitamins -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Teflon and Terylene and polystyrene,
DNA helices, guanine and thymine,
Islets of Langerhans and insulin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Ether and NaBH4 reductions,
Van der Waal’s forces and semi-conduction,
Bending vibrations when bonds stretch like springs -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Stereochemical isomerism,
Kinetics, catalysts, and mechanisms,
Metal hydroxides precipitating -
These are a few of my favourite things!!