CHEM 14D
Organic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 14C with grade of C- or better. Organic reactions, nucleophilic and electrophilic substitutions and additions; electrophilic aromatic substitutions, carbonyl reactions, catalysis, molecular basis of drug action, and organic chemistry of pharmaceuticals. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2024 - This is easily the worst class I have ever taken at UCLA. I'm horrible at O chem. The first midterm is easy the second midterm I got railed so hard because we go from 2 reactions to literally a million. Pham is also low key super condescending when you ask questions. RIP.
Fall 2024 - This is easily the worst class I have ever taken at UCLA. I'm horrible at O chem. The first midterm is easy the second midterm I got railed so hard because we go from 2 reactions to literally a million. Pham is also low key super condescending when you ask questions. RIP.
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Fall 2024 - This is the first class in my college career in which I have gotten a grade lower than a B (I'm a junior in a stem major). The assignments were overall fine (though the hw was graded harsher than previously according to some LAs I talked to). There were plenty of opportunities for extra credit, but it is not enough when you are doing below average on the exams. I got an A- in 14C so it came as a shock when the first midterm was fairly hard, the second even harder, and the final was atrocious. Obviously you take this class if you need to, and I expect many to do better than me, it was just much tougher than 14C ever was. Pham overall was fine, but he was always seemingly serious. He admitted at the end of the quarter that he doesn't feel like he did as good of a job teaching as usual, so I guess something went wrong for both of us this quarter.
Fall 2024 - This is the first class in my college career in which I have gotten a grade lower than a B (I'm a junior in a stem major). The assignments were overall fine (though the hw was graded harsher than previously according to some LAs I talked to). There were plenty of opportunities for extra credit, but it is not enough when you are doing below average on the exams. I got an A- in 14C so it came as a shock when the first midterm was fairly hard, the second even harder, and the final was atrocious. Obviously you take this class if you need to, and I expect many to do better than me, it was just much tougher than 14C ever was. Pham overall was fine, but he was always seemingly serious. He admitted at the end of the quarter that he doesn't feel like he did as good of a job teaching as usual, so I guess something went wrong for both of us this quarter.
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