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[Anonymous No.3713471]

To those of you who have taken organic chemistry:

Our class just finished covering resonance structures, nomenclature and steriochemistry. I'm no genius or anything but this shit is pretty easy so far because the concepts just make sense. Which part of this course/subject usually fucks people over the most and makes it so notorious for being so hard/heavy in memorization?

[Anonymous No.3713472]

Memorizing hundreds of reaction mechanisms can become boring.

[Anonymous No.3713495]

>>3713472

is that all?

[Anonymous No.3713498]

>>3713495
That's organic chemistry.

[Anonymous No.3713503]

the only reason people think ochem is hard is because theyre too lazy to fucking manage their time and allot the appropriate amount of time to memorizing all that fucking shit for it.

[Anonymous No.3713507]

>>3713471
Honestly Orgo isn't that hard, it just weeds out the people definitely not cut out to be pre-med, hence its bad reputation.

[Anonymous No.3713517]

>>3713472
>memorize ALL the reactions
>doingitwrong.exe

pay attention to the foundational principles, the rest is practically plug-n-chug
>mfw you struggled to barely pass O-chem

[Anonymous No.3713530]

>>3713517 hasn't gone deep enough into organic chemistry

Many simple reactions can be understood instead of memorized.
But when it comes to longer sequences of reactions for a complicated synthesis, you simply have to learn them by heart.

[Anonymous No.3713538]

>>3713507
>implying pre-med is a real degree
>implying MDs are real doctors

[Anonymous No.3713562]

>>3713530

what would be an example of some of these crazy reaction mechanisms you speak of?

>>3713517
Yeah I'm not a big fan of rote memorization. I already went through plenty of that bullshit in biology. I actually want to understand the hows and whys of ochem instead of just trying to spit out memorized stuff from my head without knowing the reasoning behind it.