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>HOW DO I LEARN CHEMISTRY?
Oxtoby. Principles of Modern Chemistry
Wade, Clayden: organic
Voet, Voet. Biochemistry
McQuarrie for physical chemistry or Anslyn's Modern Physical Organic Chemistry
Landau, Lifshitz. Statistical Physics, Part I and II, Theory of Elasticity, Physical Kinetics
Meissler. Inorganic Chemistry
Fleming. Frontier Orbitals
Silverstein. Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds
Cotton. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Smythe. Static and Dynamic Electricity
Greene. Protecting Groups in Organic Synthesis
Vogel. Practical Organic Chemistry
Odian. Principles of Polymerization
Rubinstein. Polymer Physics
The Francis and Carey texts, 1 & 2
Crabtree's organometallic book
lecture contents & research papers published by Springer Nature & Elsevier
Theoretical Chemistry: springer.com/series/10920/books
Quantum Chemistry: springer.com/series/676/books
History: springer.com/series/10127/books
Topics in current chemistry: springer.com/series/128/books
Lecture notes: springer.com/series/632/books
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>Guys I'm a future doctor taking organic next year. Tell me how to get a good grade!
Just make sure you memorize everything. Don't bother trying to understand the concepts, that's a waste of time and meant for actual chemistry students who'll need it later on. It's a lot easier if you just brute force your way through it and memorize all the mechanisms.

>I'm a pissant undergrad, how do I into synthesis research?
Go walk up to a professor and tell them you want to work in their lab. Most are glad to take on a new student, provided you aren't completely retarded - you're basically free labor. Note that if your school has a lot of future doctors then you might have to compete with them on grades, some of them might also be bumming the prof so they could pad up their applications. Also, note that if you're at a big fancy school you're gonna need good grades regardless bud

No one talks about Ochem here. I was going to make a thread on your favorite mechanism, but fuck it. General organic chemistry thread. Just remember:
best solvent: DCM
best NMR: COSY
best functional group: thiol
best mechanism: ozonolysis
best reaction: hydroboration oxidation
best alkane: pentane
best reagent: OsO4
best glassware: west condenser