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What is the best way of doing organic chemistry?

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What is the best way of doing organic chemistry?

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Aditya

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25 Feb 2009 14:56:50 IST

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The keys to organic chemistry are two things... having a good professor and having a good textbook.

By FAR the best general organic textbook that I know of (which is somewhat advanced, but beginners can learn very well from it too) is Organic Chemistry by Stuart Warren et al

More advanced is the Carey and Sundberg texts (although they are a little out of date).

The best way to understand organic chemistry is to learn mechanisms, in my opinion. You MUST learn to understand why things react the way they do. This will help you not have to memorize reactions, but instead they will seem obvious. Hopefully you have a good professor, but if not you might have to learn most on your own.

A chart depicting functional group interconversions is a useful study guide.

Make note of any named reactions and keep a list. ALL of them have wikipedia entries which may be more helpful then what your professor taught you. You can compile them into a useful study guide.

I love organic chemistry because I feel like I can make anything. It's a powerful sense of being able to play God and monkey around with the very fundamentals of what everything is made of. When you understand chemistry, it's like you understand how everything in the world works.. and in a sense, you can control it. Good luck.

Surya Prasad

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25 Feb 2009 15:02:50 IST

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master nomenclature first

Loser!

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27 Feb 2009 01:29:14 IST

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for organic u should have good grip in GOC... though it is easy,it help a lot an next chapters....

Use GOC to find the major products in reactions and by this way u dont need to study any rules and exception for that rules... and try to get products from the reaction on ur own...

Try to do subjective questions in beginning than objective....

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