#ochem reactions

[er-cryptid]

#organic chemistry #ochem #o-chem #o chem #ochem 1 #ochem 2 #organic chemistry 1 #organic chemistry 2 #mcat organic chemistry #orgo #reactions #orgo reactions #chemical reactions #orgo mcat #mcat orgo #ochem reactions #studyblr #notes #acidity #acidity notes #hybridization

[evilwizardrealm]

hi sorry for being dead . check out this epic bug i drew

#genuinely Do Not remember my tagging system at all so im just throwing this one to the wind enjoy #oc art #anyways ochem fucking suuuuuucks . if anyone has any tips for doing e1/sn1 and e2/sn2 reactions please lmk asap 😭

[rapunzelsunshine]

all this studying is really getting to me... cause what do you mean i was dreaming about streptococcus last night?? 😭😭😭

#personal #like a few months ago i was studying for ochem and i dreamt about E2 reactions...

[bare1ythere]

yeah yeah chem profs will give you literally 20 pages of practice problems for the review units but youll get to new shit and theyll give you 5 problems and call it a day

#shut up me #OCHEM. #dude how am i supposed to learn how to predict these reactions if I have no way to fucking practice #this kind of thing only comes from practice. what is wrong with you #Im struggling to find a solid pdf of practice problems online too #god im so fucking tired #fuck chemistry fuck chemistry fuck chemistry #I dont want to do this anymore #they should pay me $1000/hour for blogging and being funny when the situation calls for it #the worst part is i think if I had enough support I mightve actually liked ochem. in theory i like predicting reactions #but theyre giving me nothing so im just frustrated and confused all the time

[polskapika]

Here is a summary for Diels Alder for Ochem:

#organic chemistry #Diels Alder Reaction #chemistry #study notes #ochem #organic chemistry II

[transtetia]

was gonna continue studying but i decided to go against it cause i just made myself sad for no reason

#being on ur period is the worse actually ughgh #also i think at this rate learning the different type of reactions for ochem is not gonna make it any better so orz #i met my halfway goal anyways so i wonder if should nap or draw #rambles

[carmenberzattosgf]

since you’re taking ochem rn (gods strongest soilder) you’d try to explain what you’re working on to carm. and he’s so confused. and that’s how you react when he’s telling you about recipes like huh? 🤔🤨

i have such an intelligent girlfriend *swoons*

haha there are a lot harder science classes, trust me

you wanna disagree? come at me, i know the law baby.

How do I say this nicely…. Carmy is not book smart in the slightest 😭 like just imagining trying to explain diels alder reactions to him is actually hilarious.

This leads to him bragging about you allllll the time. Like I swear to God he’s telling all the staff at the Bear that he’s dating a genius and you have to explain to him that you’re not one.

“Carm. It’s a core chemistry class for science majors. I promise I am not a genius.”

“I don’t believe you. You understand this shit?” Carmy says, pointing to the illustration in your textbook.

“‘Understand’ is a strong word. I’m getting there, though. Hopefully.”

“You’ll get it down. You’re the smartest girl in the world.”

Anyways I just think he’s the most supportive boyfriend ever and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Carmy is always encouraging you in your school work, but also encourages you to go easy on yourself. He’s making sure you’re getting snacks during long study sessions, and he’s refilling your water bottle.

#carmen berzatto x reader #carmen berzatto #carmy berzatto x reader #the bear #mutuals 🫶🏻 #thoughts

[studentbyday]

❤️‍🩹 small commitments challenge ❤️‍🩹

I overwhelmed myself yet again with too many, too-ambitious side projects, considering where I'm starting from. So now I'm trying out making the smallest possible commitments so that I hopefully stop feeling overwhelmed by my to-do list, getting discouraged, then just giving up. Serious progress is not made with an all-or-nothing mindset. 😤

🧮 minimum commitment for math: 1-2 lessons per day (weekdays)

🎼 minimum commitment for music theory: 1-4 pages per day, 1-2 exercise questions per day (weekdays)

🎹 minimum commitment for piano practice: sight-reading

👩🏻‍💻 minimum commitment for R: 1 page of book per day (weekdays)

⚗️ minimum commitment for ochem: 4h per day (weekdays), try to end each current week by getting started on the next week's material and don't skip on the practice questions (try to read a little, then do relevant practice Qs on what you just read)

🚙 minimum commitment for driving practice: practice every weekday, review theory/try to improve my reaction time (my brother suggested i play valorant 🙈) on weekends after reset routine

Asides from wanting to keep up all the side projects for their own sake, if I want to work up to being able to handle the max courseload when I transfer uni (smth I'm seriously considering...a topic for another post, ig), I have to start by being able to do all the things on this list. For each week that I succeed at this, I'll increase the smaller minimum commitments by just a little bit (to the point where I feel like it's just under "may slightly overwhelm"). I'll be tracking my progress with weekly posts.

(Feel free to drop your small commitments as well, and we can do this challenge together! 💗💪🏻)

#small commitments challenge #studyblr #med studyblr #study challenge #100dop #heyfrithams #heydilli #astudentslifebuoy #studyspo #study motivation #sciblr #mathblr #chemblr #codeblr #progblr #lifeblr #student life #uniblr #becoming that girl #cozy academia #stem academia #academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #100 days of productivity #100 days of studying #100 days of self discipline

[lunaslovelyrambles]

“you’ve got your products and reactants mixed up.”

you swear your eraser nearly rips a hole through your paper as you fix your mistake. who decided that organic chemistry had to be so goddamn hard? and complicated? and stupid, and-

“and the solvent is wrong, polar aprotic works better for SN2.”

and why did you decide to study with the world’s number one chemistry nerd?

“thanks, kuroo, got anything to say that’ll make me feel like i actually do know reaction mechanisms?”

he chose to not say that your skeleton structure was off by one carbon. or that the fluorine should be on a dash bond and not a wedge bond.

“well,” he pointed to the problem before that you had just completed, “this one’s right.”

you gave him an unconvinced look.

“mostly right.”

“ah, there it is,” you sighed and leaned back into your chair. you were tired. more than tired - exhausted. but ochem was your worst subject. it was even worse because there was no way that you’d actually use chemistry given your career goals.

it was merely one of those classes that you “needed to take” for your major. and it was brutal compared to the other chem classes you’d taken beforehand.

kuroo has been your friend for as long as you can remember. he was your neighbor growing up, and best friend ever since then. and now, your study buddy as you struggled with chemistry.

again.

“well. the product is only slightly off. you’re just not thinking about chirality when you’re doing SN1 reactions,” he narrowed his eyes at you as he watched you nod off.

“mhm. chirality, yup.”

“‘cause that can change your products,” he trailed off. your eyes had completely closed and he could’ve sworn you fell asleep because you barely noticed your chair tipping back further and further-

“ah-AH!” you lost your balance and felt yourself fall backwards, thankfully not hitting the ground due to the much more alert kuroo tetsuro.

“i think we should call it for tonight,” he went to go close your textbook. you sprung forward to stop him.

“no, no wait! i promise i’m awake,” you pleaded with him. he sighed and shook his head.

“you’ve done this before, y/l/n. with every other chem exam i’ve helped you study for. remember when i helped you study for your first gen chem one exam?” he had a teasing lilt to his voice.

“umm.. no?”

“exactly,” he full on smirked at you now, “you fell asleep for it.” you huffed, moving your arms to cross over your chest.

“well, it’s not my fault chemistry is so.. sleep inducing.” he mocked hurt and held his hand to his chest, as if the mere thought of chemistry being talked badly about was offensive.

“how dare you speak that way about chemistry?”

“oh come off it, deep down inside your science-loving heart you know this can get a bit boring.” he hummed in response, sliding your book off the desk and into your bag.

“maybe, maybe you just don’t understand how amazingly fun and super rad it can be.” that got a laugh out of you.

“but even with how fun it is, it’s not good to study for,” he broke to check the clock, “four hours? with rarely any breaks.”

“i know,” you sighed, head resting on the desk. even as you tried to relax your brain was still filled with ochem, and stupid reactions. your eyes fluttered shut and you sighed.

kuroo smiled affectionately at your sleepiness. it was cute, and he admired how much you effort you were putting into the class despite your hatred towards it.

he nudged your shoulder to jostle you awake slightly.

“don’t fall asleep at the desk,” he gently helped you up and over to your bed where you finally felt your body decompress. kuroo tucked the blankets around your body.

he took one second to unabashedly admire how adorable you were when you got tired. kuroo couldn’t help the small smile that rose to his face.

but he soon turned, shutting off the light on the desk and gathering his stuff. he assumed you were asleep until you spoke up again:

“night, tetsu,” you yawned sleepily, the sound of the nickname from his lips made him smile.

“g’night y/n, try not to dream too much about chemistry.”

— • — • —

-> masterlist

#the motivation came in the form of kuroo #haikyuu x reader #hq x reader #haikyuu drabble #tetsuro kuroo #tetsuro kuroo x reader #kuroo x reader #kuroo tetsuro drabble #kuroo tetsuro x reader #kuro x reader

[chemblrish]

Hi! Do you have any tips for studying chemistry? For some reason I cant seem to get all the formulas in my brain.

Hey!

My unhelpful but still favorite advice for shoving formulas into one's brain is to understand them 😅 A purely memorization-based approach is very bad for chemistry.

If the problem seems to be particularly understanding/ remembering formulas:

Ask yourself if this particular formula is just words turned into numbers and mathematical symbols. I think it may not work for everyone, but for example I found it easier to remember the literal definition of pH that is "the negative decimal logarithm of hydrogen ion concentration" rather than "pH = -log [H+]" bc otherwise I'd keep forgetting about the minus sign.

Check if you find deriving a formula from another formula easier than just memorizing it. Again, my personal example is I hate memorizing things so much I never really bothered to remember the equation that describes Ostwald's law of dilution - bc I knew I could easily, quickly, and painlessly derive it from the equilibrium constant for concentration + degree of dissociation (and I've done it so many times now it stuck in my brain anyway).

When all else fails, I turn to mnemotechnics. To this day I remember that Clapeyron's equation goes pV = nRT because many years ago someone on the internet shared a funny sentence whose words start with these 5 letters. The sillier the better.

If the issue is with chemistry in general:

Take it chapter by chapter. Chemistry, like most STEM subjects, is just blocks of knowledge upon blocks of knowledge. For example, if you want to learn electrolysis, you need to understand redox reactions first. Try to identify where the struggle begins and work from there.

Once you've picked a topic you want to work on, follow the reasoning in your textbook. If you get stuck, that might be a sign you're simply missing a piece of information from a previous chapter. If an example comes up, try to solve it along with the tips in the textbook.

If anything remains unclear, it's usually not the best idea to just leave it and move on. If the textbook becomes unhelpful, turn to the internet or maybe a friend. Otherwise, the next chapter may just turn out to be needlessly confusing.

Practice problems practice problems practice problems!! And not just the numerical ones. The theory-based ones where they ask you about reactions, orbitals, the properties of the elements etc. are important too.

Choose understanding over memorizing whenever possible.

Try to look at the big picture: the way certain concepts are intertwined, how one law may be a logical consequence of another law you learnt before, why some concepts are taught together, why you had to learn something else first to get to what you're studying now. Again, as an example, I think it's particularly fun to see towards the end of ochem, somewhere around the biomolecules: you need to integrate your knowledge of aromatic compounds, ketones and aldehydes, alcohols, carboxylic acids... Stack new information upon what you already know.

Study methods I'm a big fan of: spaced repetition, solving past papers (anything I can get my hands on tbh), flashcards for the things I absolutely have to memorize, exchanging questions and answers with a friend, watching related videos.

If by any chance you end up taking pchem, I have a post for that specifically.

I hope you can find something helpful here :) Good luck!

#inbox #chemistry asks

[er-cryptid]

#organic chemistry #ochem #o-chem #o chem #ochem 1 #ochem 2 #organic chemistry 1 #organic chemistry 2 #mcat organic chemistry #orgo #reactions #orgo reactions #chemical reactions #orgo mcat #mcat orgo #ochem reactions #studyblr #notes #lower pka #pka #pka notes

[t00thpasteface]

I'm in a similar major to you in Texas as well and it's a nice sense of comradery seeing your college posts/art for classes while I'm going through the same shit (I am shaking your hand at hating ochem so hard that it causes a E2 reaction).

OCHEM IS KILLING MEEEEEE... but honestly??? vertebrates is worse. at least in ochem i don't have to look at mutilated cats and get sick off of formaldehyde. vert literally sent me into a spiral earlier this week, i'm so so so glad to be done with that lab

#still got the final in a couple weeks but lecture is such a cakewalk compared to the lab portion #shebbz shoutz #ask #anon hour

[fraisesetextraitdevanille]

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Diels-Alder reaction of a compound in eucalyptus oil today in ochem lab.

#studyblr #study motivation #study aesthetic #chemistry #studying #ochem #science #studyspo #fraisespersonal #organic chemistry

[spiritmunie]

i like your header soooo much but i must ask what are they looking at with such grumpiness???

I drew this in ochem, so they are frowning at all the chemical reactions I have to learn :(( you can see a random reaction in the bottom right corner lol

#I just finished the exam whoop #I memorized so many reaction mechanisms that I didn't need to #hopefully it went well though

[evermoredeluxe]

can’t even a draw a simple sn2 reaction mechanism. brain has officially stopped braining after doing ochem for almost 4 hours today <3

#im actually doing lab report which SUCKS ass #arshia talks

[queerholmcs]

is organic chemistry really that bad? every time someone tells me how terrible it is the little spite demon in my head says "well /i/ would be perfect at it 😤"

if so, what makes it so bad?

i do think organic chemistry is really neat as a concept, and there's really cool stuff happening there—but i scraped through ochem lectures at uni by the skin of my teeth. (which is why i focus on analytical chemistry (love of my life) and ended up in the inorganic department for my doctoral work.)

for some people it's really their thing, and everything clicks for them! i personally had a problem where i would do horribly on the exams, and people would say "oh well you can't just memorize the reactions, you have to understand the mechanisms and do the electron-pushing" and i'd be like "...yeah ok but i thought i did understand it." because i'm definitely better at understanding concepts than memorizing reactions. but the exam scores would prove me wrong. (the wet lab portions of the courses, however—enjoyed those and did fairly well. loved some hands-on work. i do also find amusing the aspect of ochem where you can go from "ok so in theory, on paper, this is the reaction that happens" to "if you actually run this reaction in a lab, you will generate about eight different products. you will get a 10% yield if you are lucky. have fun isolating your desired product.")

i think the difficulty is just that you have to understand the whole mechanism, and how slight differences in the initial structure of the starting material or reagent can result in very different outcomes. i've heard people who loved ochem say that the issue is just that it's taught horribly (similar to what i've heard about upper-level maths courses), but i think it just doesn't mesh with my brain very well for whatever reason. at least in the "you need to Know all of this and answer an exam correctly" setting; i do still enjoy reading an occasional paper about new reactions they're doing, or something. and the mechanisms are cool to look at, as long as i don't have to come up with them on my own.

like, look at this! you can explain why it is that when you mix two things in acidic conditions, you get a new thing, based on electrons and atoms and bonds! and then ochem concepts get applied to biology and you get biochemistry, to explain how the human body works the way it does, from dna to proteins to how drugs get metabolized! (insert "chemistry is the most foundational of all sciences" spiel here. don't tell the physicists i said that. it's a joke.)

anyway. regardless of why ochem has the reputation it does: once a course has that notoriety—good luck changing that public opinion, lol. (realising as i'm getting to the end of this that a bit of that probably also comes from ochem being like a 4th/5th-year premed type course requirement, where you've got a bunch of people taking it who truly probably don't need to know the ins and outs of drug synthesis and might be having a hard time finding it relevant to their work? i was a chem major, so i had it as a 1st/2nd-year course. and also i was a chem major.)

#that got a bit long. whoops! #answered #anyway i just didn't want to come off as absolutely hating on ochem!! it's not my cup of tea but it is neat and i respect folks who do it!! #i did have a lot of fun with another course i got to take for my masters #to fulfill my ochem requirement #but it was all about analytical chemistry methods applied specifically to organic compounds!! nmr and gc-ms and ftir and uv-vis type stuff!!