CHEM 136
Organic Structural Methods
Description: Lecture, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Requisites: courses 30C and 30CL, with grades of C- or better. Laboratory course in organic structure determination by chemical and spectroscopic methods; microtechniques. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2023 - This class is EASYY but overall just alright. The professor is kinda dry but overall still kind and willing to help. You can honestly just read the textbook alone and be more than fine in the class. HW was not too bad but is graded so make sure to double check especially with the ones that have provided answers from the end of the TB. The exams, however, can be tricky. You’ll be given just an IR, for example, but not the molecular formula. BUT!, best thing about the exams are that they’re completely open note as in, I had my iPad notes and laptop for the exam. As for the lab, it’s fine but disorganized at times. The TAs are a great help and getting good results isn’t expected. If anything, sample data is given if your experiment doesn’t work (and a lot of them don’t). The lab reports are really straightforward and doesn’t require a lot of explaining. Literally just analyzing your NMR in bullet points; they’re not graded that harshly + a lot of time is given to complete them especially since we would finish some of our labs in less than the given lab sessions. The grading scale is also crazy; 75% for an A-, 50% is a B- so you’ll literally be fine.
Fall 2023 - This class is EASYY but overall just alright. The professor is kinda dry but overall still kind and willing to help. You can honestly just read the textbook alone and be more than fine in the class. HW was not too bad but is graded so make sure to double check especially with the ones that have provided answers from the end of the TB. The exams, however, can be tricky. You’ll be given just an IR, for example, but not the molecular formula. BUT!, best thing about the exams are that they’re completely open note as in, I had my iPad notes and laptop for the exam. As for the lab, it’s fine but disorganized at times. The TAs are a great help and getting good results isn’t expected. If anything, sample data is given if your experiment doesn’t work (and a lot of them don’t). The lab reports are really straightforward and doesn’t require a lot of explaining. Literally just analyzing your NMR in bullet points; they’re not graded that harshly + a lot of time is given to complete them especially since we would finish some of our labs in less than the given lab sessions. The grading scale is also crazy; 75% for an A-, 50% is a B- so you’ll literally be fine.
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