Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 20B with grade of C- or better. First term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Covalent bonding, shapes, stereochemistry, and acid/base properties of organic molecules. Properties, synthesis, and reactions of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, and alkynes. SN2, SN1, elimination, and radical reactions. P/NP or letter grading.

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5-10 hrs/week
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Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 In-Person
    Grade: B+

    This guy absolutely blows. Do your best to avoid this professor if you can. Class was incredibly disorganized and lecture slides were seldom used. Rather, Maji would write on the whiteboard and hope that the material was understood by the class. On top of the disorganized lectures, bro would give exams with material that wasn't taught in lecture. Up until the first midterm, I attended every single lecture and did all of the exam prep worksheets he provided. I think like 30% of the exam was on material he never covered in class and the midterm average reflected that. I'd strongly suggest looking towards other resources for exam prep, I've found LibreTexts to do a good job of explaining material and Organic Chemistry Tutor on Youtube to be helpful as well. Do the exam prep work he gives, but be prepared to do extra studying on topics not covered on the exam prep worksheets and lecture slides.

    TDLR; avoid this class if you can!!! Ochem does not need to be this mentally exhausting!

Course

Instructor
Maji, R.
Previously taught
23F

Grading Information

  • No group projects

  • Attendance not required

  • 2 midterms

  • Finals week final

  • 100% recommend the textbook

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