user177: Because there are so many overlaps with organic chemistry and biological sciences, I was wondering if we should allow questions pertaining to organic chemistry on biology.se. Of course, in an ideal world, these questions would be best suited for a chemistry.se but since that doesn't exist yet, I was wondering what people's thoughts are on "adopting" these kinds of questions for the time being.
Remember, organic chemistry has many foundations in biochemistry, chemical biology, synthetic biology, etc... 

user81: If the chemistry question has a biology component - such as the question on ATP - then it is clearly within the remit of this site. All biologists should know some chemistry after all. Otherwise, we shunt it over to chemistry SE when it it is up.

user66: I don't think this is a good idea. Organic chemistry is a vast domain and the question about leaving group closed recently requires the knowledge that is difficult to expect from a biochemistry, chemical biology etc. professional.
I do realize that we probably drop some users if we keep these questions off-topic, but allowing these questions might eventually lead to experts' drop and loose of project focus.
Notwithstanding I find a good policy to encourage people to commit for the Chemistry proposal on Area51. I just did it myself after I have read the question.

user6: The typical synthetic organic chemistry doesn't really have anything to do with biology, it should be considered off-topic on this site. 
But there are a lot of aspects of biology that can be explained by organic chemistry, so questions about the chemical basis of biological systems are certainly on-topic. For example, asking why RNA is less stable than DNA is fundamentally an organic chemistry question that would be perfectly on-topic here.  
It's unfortunate that the Chemistry proposal on Area 51 hasn't launched yet, but I hope we'll get that one started soon.

177: <p>Because there are so many overlaps with organic chemistry and biological sciences, I was wondering if we should allow questions pertaining to organic chemistry on biology.se. Of course, in an ideal world, these questions would be best suited for a chemistry.se but since that doesn't exist yet, I was wondering what people's thoughts are on "adopting" these kinds of questions for the time being.</p>

<p>Remember, organic chemistry has many foundations in biochemistry, chemical biology, synthetic biology, etc... </p>
 81: <p>If the chemistry question has a biology component - such as the question on <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/576/how-on-a-physical-level-does-atp-confer-energy://">ATP</a> - then it is clearly within the remit of this site. All biologists should know some chemistry after all. Otherwise, we shunt it over to chemistry SE when it it is up.</p>
 66: <p>I don't think this is a good idea. Organic chemistry is a vast domain and <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/914/how-to-transform-the-hydroxyl-of-an-alcohol-with-acetic-anhydride-in-a-good-leav">the question about leaving group closed recently</a> requires the knowledge that is difficult to expect from a biochemistry, chemical biology etc. professional.</p>

<p>I do realize that we probably drop some users if we keep these questions off-topic, but allowing these questions might eventually lead to experts' drop and loose of project focus.</p>

<p>Notwithstanding I find a good policy to encourage people to commit for the Chemistry proposal on Area51. I just did it myself after I have read the question.</p>
 6: <p>The typical synthetic organic chemistry doesn't really have anything to do with biology, it should be considered off-topic on this site. </p>

<p>But there are a lot of aspects of biology that can be explained by organic chemistry, so questions about the chemical basis of biological systems are certainly on-topic. For example, asking why RNA is less stable than DNA is fundamentally an organic chemistry question that would be perfectly on-topic here.  </p>

<p>It's unfortunate that the <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4964/chemistry">Chemistry proposal on Area 51</a> hasn't launched yet, but I hope we'll get that one started soon.</p>
