Most Annoying Ochem Topic

[snorlax]

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Lab is a whole other can of worms. If I had to take one more melting point, do one more extraction, or get one more 20% yield product I would have held a match to the bottle of ether and ended our whole lab's misery 😛

Agreed. I am not looking forward to 3rd and final quarter of ochem lab.
But I would take ANY additional ochem lecture in a heartbeat.

 

[Phosphorus Ylide]

Favorite: Multi-step synthesis/retrosynthesis
Mechanisms


Least favorite: Naming.

 

[snorlax]

LOL i still don't understand why everyone says naming. I thought that was the easiest part....

 

[plsfoldthx]

I ****ing hate sugars. It's like everything you don't like about ochem rolled up into one. There's stereochemistry, all sorts of different types of names, and it's just boring with all similar looking chains of carbons that are not immediately distinguishable.

 

[marele86]

I ****ing hate sugars. It's like everything you don't like about ochem rolled up into one. There's stereochemistry, all sorts of different types of names, and it's just boring with all similar looking chains of carbons that are not immediately distinguishable.

I was originally thinking NMR, but no, you're right. Sugars were so bad I blocked them out of my memory. Ugh. 👍

 

[christina30]

I LOVE NMR 😀

I know I'm in the minority, but I loved Orgo II as a whole. In fact, some might call me a straight-up freak

 

[rafflecopter]

I was originally thinking NMR, but no, you're right. Sugars were so bad I blocked them out of my memory. Ugh. 👍

Just had my ochem 2 final and 40% was on sugars 🙁. One horribly massive problem about converting galactose into alpha/b pyranosides and alpha/beta furanosides then reacting them with like 8 different things (all 4 versions of sugars). It was a bloodbath.