The Ten Commandments of Organic Chemistry

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The Ten Commandments of Organic Chemistry

1. Thou shalt not make more than four bonds to
   carbon.
2. Thou shalt not have carbocations in very basic
   solution.
3. Organic chemists shall not deal with d or f
   orbitals.
4. Organic chemists shall not balance chemical
   equations.
5. Thou shalt never start a mechanism arrow at a
   proton
6. A tertiary carbocation is more stable than a
   secondary or a primary carbocation.
7. Resonance shall stabilize thy intermediates.
8. Organic chemistry labs shall not be analytical
   chemistry.
9. Thou shalt use Organic Chemistry textbooks as
   door stops.
10. Thou shalt name all organic reactions and rules
    after dead Russian or German guys.