Functional Groups of Chemistry

Andrey Solovyev

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About this game

The most important app for organic chemistry students includes 80 functional groups, the classes of organic compounds (aldehyde, ethers, esters, etc.) and natural products (nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, etc.).
Start from the basic groups (such as ketones and hydrocarbons) and proceed to the advanced topics (for example, azo compounds and boronic acids).

Choose the game mode and take a quiz:
1) Spelling quizzes (easy and hard) - answer all questions correctly to win a star.
2) Multiple-choice questions (with 4 or 6 answer options).
3) Time game (give as many answers as you can in 1 minute) - you should give more than 25 correct answers to get a star.
4) Drag and Drop: match 4 chemical formulas and 4 names.
Two learning tools:
* Flashcards for memorizing these groups.
* Tables of functional groups.

The app is translated into 15 languages, including English, German, Spanish and many others. So you can learn the names of the functional groups in any of them.
Advertisements can be removed by an in-app-purchase.

I hope that this application will help you prepare for the exam in organic chemistry!

Ratings and reviews

Quite good and that's coming from someone with a couple of degrees in chemistry. The developer would do well include either an in app purchase to turn off adds or a paid pro version without adds. Banner adds are okay but adds that take the whole screen are very aggrevating and can cause the app to malfunction, fail or outright crash. Five stars for an in app purchase to dismiss adds.

The optional survey asks if this game is beautiful. I'll say, "yes," though the kind of beauty is quite different than a tree, or the words out of a well spoken person expressing a concept. Thanks for putting it together! It was a good review, though I don't think I'd gone through all of these in 1/2 of the full Organic Chem course at Rutgers New Brunswick. That said, it's a good tool -- format wise!

I wish there were customization options. Not all courses require knowledge of all these compounds, so the ability to exclude some would be great. But it's comprehensive enough for my needs, and I like the variety of activities.

What's new

+ New game mode: Drag and Drop.
+ Dark Theme.
+ Turkish translation. Now the app is translated into 15 languages, including English, Spanish, and many other.