Ethers, thiols, sulfides: Melissa Maribel's naming week meets exam season
Seven new Shorts, from naming rules to an SN1, SN2, E1 and E2 flow chart, landed just as midterms arrive for organic chemistry students.
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How to survive your next Ochem Exam! #organicchemistry
Midterm season sets the calendar for Melissa Maribel, and her week of uploads reads like an organic chemistry syllabus in order. Seven new Shorts went up, starting with a run on naming: ethers on October 1, then sulfides, then thiols, the sulfur cousins of alcohols that tend to show up together on the same exam page.
The most watched of the week was not a lesson at all. "How to survive your next Ochem Exam!" is a pep talk for students who feel behind, tagged for midterms and exam season, and it passed 3,000 views. Its one comment is the kind every chemistry major will recognize: a joke that the stages of grief begin the day before the test.
Then the week turned to reactions. "Quick Review on SN1 Reactions" is now drawing the most daily views on the channel, with the exam-survival Short close behind, and the newest upload ties the whole unit together: a flow chart for deciding between SN1, SN2, E1 and E2, the four-way choice that trips up many students meeting alkyl halides for the first time. Read in order, the week looks a lot like the chapter it covers.
The channel as a whole ran a little above its usual daily pace and added about a thousand subscribers. Among the science channels near its size, Bizarre Beasts is having the standout week, running well ahead of its own normal, while several larger neighbors are quieter than usual.
It fits the story in her description: she struggled with chemistry herself, earned a bachelor's degree in it, and became a tutor so others would not have to struggle the same way.
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when its 1 day away, they start to feel the stages of grief🤣🤣
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The videos drawing views on Melissa Maribel right now
- Channel
- Melissa Maribel
- Subscribers
- 448,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 169,090
- Videos published this week
- 7
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 3,409
- Views on its first day
- 1,463
The numbers
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💡 Test your knowledge
In the name SN2, what does the S stand for?
SN2 stands for bimolecular nucleophilic substitution, a reaction in which a nucleophile replaces a leaving group in one step.
