inorganic chemistry
Started by lagirl213
im sorry, not the DAT website, but the kaplan website.
http://www.kaptest.com/Dental/Dental-Home/Apply-to-Dental-School/Research/DN_admiss_causc.html
http://www.kaptest.com/Dental/Dental-Home/Apply-to-Dental-School/Research/DN_admiss_causc.html
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inorganic and general chem are not necessarily the same. general would include everything in the Kaplan Dat, all those calculations with vapour pressures, moles, stoic, analytical methods, trends in Mendeleiev table etc. Inorganic involves metal chemistry, mainly metal complexes (huge field), but also many more crazy/fun topics which i can't exactly think of at the moment. if you haven't studied the d-block chemistry and non-metal chemistry then you haven't *really* studied inorganic. as in all of chem, inorganic/general/organic overlap and when they do, its hell.
it usually helps to contact individual schools and check if they take general chem as inorganic chem, if its not clearly specified.
it usually helps to contact individual schools and check if they take general chem as inorganic chem, if its not clearly specified.
This is true. Much of the difference between the two lies in that inorganic chemistry is mainly metals and metal complexes. I was an inorganic chem major and I mostly studied tungsten/chromium carbonyls with cyclic voltammetry and weird stuff like that. Gen chem is like acid/base, gases, oh look a periodic table!, and how many moles?
Some gen chem classes at schools do tend to mush these to categories together though into one overall gen chem class.
In my school inorganic chem is a senior level chem class. Seems insanity.
Yeah it's pretty nuts. Unless you really really like chemistry, I wouldn't take it likely. Since metals don't follow the normal patterns like the octet rule, you basically have to throw everything you know out the window when you see something like tungsten binding to 12 different things. It's like, wtf...
looks like i was wrong
but still I cant imagine that USC would require you to take both gen and inorganic chem, especially if inorganic is as high of a level class as the thewirednev says. I'd call the school if I were you.
Anywhere in dental school related material, if you see the words inorganic chemistry, replace it with general chemistry. That's what they really mean. Notice that any school that lists inorganic chem as a prereq, doesn't also list general chem as a prereq (at the most they may write general/inorganic). To them it's apparently a matter of semantics. You don't need inorganic chem for any school any more than you'd need Pchem.
