Study of carbon containing molecules. This includes the molecules in living organisms as well as in a broad variety of industrial products such as medicines, cosmetics and plastics. Organic chemists work in all of these industries creating and developing products. According to the ACS, an organic chemist might work on developing a new molecule that is based on a molecule in nature in order to create a new medication or industrial chemical. They may use gas or liquid chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance to get their resulting data. You may be a teacher of the field or you may be a researcher or marketing for a product.