Clearly there are differences in opinion based on each responder's experiences. Simply put, it is circumstance dependent. As for myself, I agree with Gavin in that Gen Cehm is not needed for organic (for the most part), only because this is what I experienced, hence where I stand on the situation. The first couple of Orgo 1 lectures toroughly reviewed atomic structure, Lewis dot structures, Lewis acids/bases, orbital hybridization, resonance structures, molecular geometry, inter/intra molecular forces, etc. etc. To tell you the truth, there is not much to know about the above anyway that cannot be memorized in a couple of hours; i.e Lewis acid accepts an electrom pair---not that big a deal. I think for the most part, the very LAST part of chemistry is what is important and professors (mine did) tell you "this is where Organic branches off"---at hybridizarion that is). The inter/intra molecular forces helped when deciphering physical properties (i.e boiling point of an alkane), but again that is trivial relative to what organic is all about. In my Organic class, I knew tons of people who never even looked at GChem and recognized right off what a joke Orgo was in terms of difficulty. What makes GChem so notorious are the equations accompanying second semester (orgo grazes first semester gchem BASICS in the first lecture and spends one second on second semester gchem hybridization. Also gchem has MATH and orgo does not). Orgo has no math and this is what make it unique. Orgo mainly deals with analyzing reaction reactants, products, reagents (memorizing them), intermediates, etc, etc. Orgo is totally different in that regard, but again it is dependent on what each professor per institution thought was necessary to teach and focus on. My professor and Gavin's professor seeminlgly taught us orgo in such a way as to minimize the gchem bridge construction. Other professors emphisize the gchem bridge.
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