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What MUST be MEMORIZED for the ORGANIC CHEMISTRY section of the DAT?
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know all of the rxn's and reagents. how the reagents are used on things like alkenes/benzens/carbonyl/carbox derivs etc...
know reagents that oxidize and reduce and how and if they work on ketones/esters/nitriles/alcohols/carbox...
know how a reagent can make certain products cis or trans or racemic...
make sure you're comfortable with quickly designating R or S and know the diff between diastereomers/enantiomers/meso....
conceptual stuff about which ones are soluable in water/high pb&mp...
i guess i'm not being that useful, huh? but i'd say praticing with your orgo book should give you a great exercise...what was the most helpful for me is having gone through my text book and solving all of the highlighted problems that are integrated into each of the chapters - i used wade (chapter 2 - 22 and if you're pressed for time to go through 10-22 but not forgetting the SN1/SN2 E1/E2 chapters) but McMurry is awesome too...McMurry is great for easily explaining concepts while Wade is great with mechanisms and asking questions within the chapters.
know reagents that oxidize and reduce and how and if they work on ketones/esters/nitriles/alcohols/carbox...
know how a reagent can make certain products cis or trans or racemic...
make sure you're comfortable with quickly designating R or S and know the diff between diastereomers/enantiomers/meso....
conceptual stuff about which ones are soluable in water/high pb&mp...
i guess i'm not being that useful, huh? but i'd say praticing with your orgo book should give you a great exercise...what was the most helpful for me is having gone through my text book and solving all of the highlighted problems that are integrated into each of the chapters - i used wade (chapter 2 - 22 and if you're pressed for time to go through 10-22 but not forgetting the SN1/SN2 E1/E2 chapters) but McMurry is awesome too...McMurry is great for easily explaining concepts while Wade is great with mechanisms and asking questions within the chapters.
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There is no such thing as must. I think if you get a bunch of those DAT prep books you'll get the idea for what you need to know. There are thousands of questions they could ask, try and cover ALL your bases.
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Do we have to know reactions involving Protecting groups>
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Yes I agree with previous posts, don`t memorize, you must understand it. You know that the questions will be different on each DAT, I wouldn`t gammble with selective memorization. You never know what they decide to put on the DAT. Your safest bet is to learn everything from the organic chemistry college course. By learn I mean understand how to do the problems. You shouldn`t memorize any overly complex structures and their molecular weights, but know how to name organic compounds.
