I'm looking for input on what parts of first semester ochem are important for second semester. I start ochem II in a couple weeks. I took the first semester a couple years at a different university and I want to brush up on what I will really need for second semester. I'm assuming NMR is important, anything else? The real basic concepts I remember like resonance and orbitals I remember. Advice appreciated!!
Ochem II
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Second semester is typically straight reactions. Depending on how its taught at your school, doing well may involve memorizing a large number of reactions, or learning the nuts and bolts of which rxns are Sn1, Sn2, sterically hindered, et....and then deducing which products can be formed/will be formed. Where I took it, the exams were only about predicting products with some synthesis questions, so memmorization was the way to go. In this latter method, very little of Orgo I is really needed. In fact, you could argue that Orgo II could be taken w/o having attempted Orgo I.
PS NMR and Spectroscopic data is very important. You will have to memorize tons of shifts.
PS NMR and Spectroscopic data is very important. You will have to memorize tons of shifts.
