Mcat: halogenation and E1/E2 were removed?

[mooong]

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I'm wondering if halogenation, E1/E2, halohydrin, epoxidation reactions were removed. Thank you!

 

[993444]

Those are OChem I concepts. IIRC almost all orgo related MCAT content is OChem II concepts.

 

[907914]

I'm wondering if halogenation, E1/E2, halohydrin, epoxidation reactions were removed. Thank you!

Literally all you need to know for Orgo is nomenclature, chirality, electronegativity/electron affinity, and sterics/electronics. Specific reagents, conditions, all that nonsense is so low yield that it isn't even worthwhile to study it.

 

[vy2005]

You should definitely know different reducing agents as well as their relative strengths

 

[907914]

You should definitely know different reducing agents as well as their relative strengths

Concepts are key for MCAT. Don't rote-memorize a bunch of different reducing agents. Just know what a reducing agent 'looks like' in terms of what to expect, and then you should be able to deduce strength from the passage/charge/functional groups etc.

 

[wehhe14112]

I used kaplan to study and I thought it prepared me pretty well. Be comfortable with carbonyl chemistry and know what makes something a good nucleophile/electrophile. I remember I had a question on mine where you had to pick which group was the best leaving group based on knowledge of which molecule can best hold the negative charge.

 

[deleted853480]

People were complaining about having too much o chem and physics on the old mcat. So a bunch of those topics were removed and they added behavioural science.