PREPARATION FOR CHEM 353 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II
The most significant reasons why students struggle with Organic
Chemistry
II are summarised below:
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Poor background knowledge from Organic Chemistry I and General Chemistry
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Poor study / learning habits during the course itself
If you want to prepare for this course, the best things you can do to
start
with are to review Organic Chemistry I materials such as:
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structure and bonding, esp. Lewis structures
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nomenclature
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resonance
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acidity and basicity
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spectroscopy
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reactions SN1, SN2, E1 and E2
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pushing curly arrows
Make sure you can answer ALL the questions of the final and understand
the organic chemistry behind them !
Only then are you ready to think about Chem 353, in which case you
should
read Ch6 of the text book on ALKENES.
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