Studying chemistry at Harvard while preparing for Columbia Medical School means James has worked through organic chemistry from both the academic and pre-med sides — understanding mechanisms deeply enough to satisfy a chemistry major, and efficiently enough to apply them in biochemistry and pharmacology contexts. He's particularly strong at teaching students how to predict reaction outcomes by analyzing charge stability and leaving group trends rather than treating each transformation as a new thing to memorize. Rated 4.9 by students.

Having earned a chemistry degree from Yale, Zosia spent years immersed in the subject well past the introductory orgo sequence — which means she can contextualize tricky topics like electrophilic aromatic substitution and acyl chemistry within the broader landscape of how molecules actually behave. She walks students through spectral analysis and multi-step synthesis by building from first principles of electronegativity and sterics, so each new reaction type feels like an extension of what they already know rather than a fresh page to memorize. Rated 4.9 by students.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and Josef teaches students to read them — arrow pushing, stereochemistry, and functional group reactivity — rather than memorize hundreds of individual reactions. His biochemistry focus at Cornell means he can connect orgo concepts like nucleophilic substitution and carbonyl chemistry directly to biological molecules students will encounter later.

Most organic chemistry frustration comes from trying to memorize hundreds of reactions instead of recognizing the handful of electronic patterns — nucleophilic attack, leaving group ability, steric effects — that drive all of them. Garrett teaches students to read arrow-pushing mechanisms as stories about electron movement, which makes predicting products and regiochemistry intuitive. His approach turns reaction maps from overwhelming charts into logical flowcharts.

Four years of tutoring organic chemistry at Yale — while simultaneously doing pre-med coursework — gave Marcus a sharp sense of where students get stuck, particularly with carbonyl reactivity and multi-step synthesis planning. His current research at the Hospital for Special Surgery keeps him actively applying these concepts, so he teaches functional group transformations as interconnected tools rather than an isolated reaction catalog.

Reaction mechanisms are the core of organic chemistry, and most students struggle because they try to memorize arrow-pushing patterns instead of understanding why electrons move where they do. Jamie has tutored organic chemistry extensively alongside his pre-med and medical coursework, and he teaches students to read a mechanism the way you'd read a sentence — identifying the nucleophile, the electrophile, and the driving force before ever drawing an arrow.

Daniel's PhD work in genetics and neuroscience at Rockefeller means he uses organic chemistry daily — understanding how small molecules interact with proteins, how drug candidates are designed, and why stereochemistry matters at the molecular level. That real-world context turns topics like carbonyl reactivity and functional group transformations into something students can anchor to actual science, not just exam prep.

Currently studying chemistry at Carnegie Mellon, Alex is immersed in organic chemistry coursework right now — which means he knows exactly which concepts are tripping students up this semester, from stereochemistry assignments to multi-step synthesis problems. His 4.8 rating speaks to an approach that prioritizes building intuition about why electrons move where they do, not just drilling practice sets.

Thomas earned his biochemistry and molecular biology degree alongside a master's in biology, which means he spent years working through the organic chemistry that underpins enzyme catalysis, metabolic pathways, and drug interactions. That biochemical context gives him a practical angle on topics like carbonyl chemistry and stereoselectivity — he can explain why a particular reaction matters, not just how to draw the arrows. Rated 4.8 by students.

Reaction mechanisms are the backbone of organic chemistry, and the difference between struggling and succeeding often comes down to whether a student can track electron movement through each arrow-pushing step. Shin approaches orgo by connecting functional group reactivity to the underlying principles — electronegativity, sterics, resonance — so that predicting products becomes logical rather than an exercise in memorization.

Susan's biology concentration at NYU means she first tackled organic chemistry as the molecular foundation underneath everything from metabolic cycles to pharmacology — so she teaches arrow-pushing and functional group behavior with an eye toward why these reactions show up again in biochemistry and beyond. Her approach to multi-step synthesis problems starts with getting students to recognize the reactive sites on a molecule before worrying about memorizing named reactions, which builds the kind of chemical intuition that transfers to unfamiliar exam questions.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and Meghna speaks it fluently after years of tutoring orgo to both high school and college students. She walks through arrow-pushing, stereochemistry, and functional group transformations step by step, building the pattern recognition that turns a seemingly endless list of reactions into a manageable set of principles.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and Matt learned to speak it fluently during his molecular biology concentration at Cornell, where understanding nucleophilic substitutions and carbonyl additions was essential lab knowledge. He teaches students to recognize electron-flow patterns across reaction types so that predicting products becomes intuitive instead of overwhelming.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and Andrew teaches students to read them fluently — identifying nucleophiles, predicting leaving groups, and tracking electron movement through arrow-pushing. Rather than treating each reaction type as an isolated thing to memorize, he shows how a handful of core principles (electronegativity, sterics, resonance stabilization) explain most of what happens across substitution, elimination, and addition reactions.

Reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry demand a kind of visual storytelling — tracking electron flow through arrow-pushing, predicting products from stereochemistry, and recognizing functional group behavior across dozens of reaction types. Aman brings a medical student's perspective to orgo, connecting synthesis pathways and biomolecule reactivity to the biochemistry he's actively studying in his coursework.

Reaction mechanisms are the heart of organic chemistry, and Matthew treats them like stories: each arrow push has a reason rooted in electronegativity, sterics, or leaving-group ability. Having taken multiple chemistry courses through his University of Michigan program, he picked up pattern-recognition shortcuts for synthesis problems that save students hours of frustration. His 4.9 rating speaks to how well that approach lands.

I am patient and collaborative. I work with my students to help them come to the answers on their own, and I find creative and fun ways for students to think about the material in a new light.

I am taking pre-requisite courses to be eligible for medical school. I enjoy tutoring Science as well as Math and especially enjoy helping students overcome anxieties and fears they have associated with these subjects. In my spare time I enjoy running, biking, and swimming as well as baking.