/sci/ - Science & Math

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I was told that memorizing reactions is pointless because there are hundreds of thousands of them, so you need to learn how different substituents behave. What I've done - since my classes are online and our exams are emailed to us, with no supervision - is made a Word document with screencaps of every reaction I've come across, as well as flow charts with something like, say, a benzene in the middle and all of the common reagents spring from it and pointing to what the mixture looks like. I add text descriptions that are easily searchable (for instance, 1-methylcyclohexene pointing to a reaction with hydronium forms 1-methylcyclohexanol, to which I affix a description of "ring with H3O+) so I can ctrl-F what I come across for the exams. I figure I'm at a severe disadvantage as it is, what with a short summer semester and lacking face-to-face instruction, so I'm just evening the odds.