CHEM 30BL
Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
Description: Lecture, one hour; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 30A (or 30AH), 30AL and 30B, with grades of C- or better. Basic experimental techniques in organic synthesis (performing reactions, monitoring reactions, and conducting purifications) and spectroscopy (IR, NMR, mass spectrometry). Synthesis of known organic molecules on microscale level with focus on societal applications. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 3.0
Units: 3.0
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Selling Chemistry 30 BL study guide (used to get an A- in this class in Fall '13). The 15 typed page comprehensive guide includes discussion of key concepts, experimental techniques, summary of expected results and common questions/answers to typical quiz questions for each experiment. All information is easy to follow and organized by experiment name. Note: I did not attend a single lecture and relied solely on this. Price - $20 Text ********** if interested.
Selling Chemistry 30 BL study guide (used to get an A- in this class in Fall '13). The 15 typed page comprehensive guide includes discussion of key concepts, experimental techniques, summary of expected results and common questions/answers to typical quiz questions for each experiment. All information is easy to follow and organized by experiment name. Note: I did not attend a single lecture and relied solely on this. Price - $20 Text ********** if interested.
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Spring 2026 - I'm fairly certain Dr. Deifel will no longer be teaching at UCLA, but he co-taught this with Dr. Casas so I expect this will be applicable to when she's teaching this, especially since it seemed like she really admired his style and his connection to the students. If you were to imagine a millennial teaching organic chemistry, that's basically Deifel. He uses his vape to show mechanism routes, calls us "kiddos," and ended every lecture (including the first) by saying I love you all and pretending to cry. He does a lot of rambling, which I'm not a fan of but some people eat it up. He is very clear in his lectures about what will and won't be on the test, with the added bonus of him culling a lot of the stuff because he finds it redundant. The actual labs are super boring and have ridiculously long waiting steps. The majority of them are just running TLC, staining it, and then performing liquid-liquid extractions. Get lucky with a lab partner and it won't be so bad. Whoever grades the pre and post-labs has some sort of deep rooted anger that they're taking out on the students though. It is so upright and will just take points off for random stuff, which sucks because that's like your entire grade. The final was easy enough that it didn't matter though.
Spring 2026 - I'm fairly certain Dr. Deifel will no longer be teaching at UCLA, but he co-taught this with Dr. Casas so I expect this will be applicable to when she's teaching this, especially since it seemed like she really admired his style and his connection to the students. If you were to imagine a millennial teaching organic chemistry, that's basically Deifel. He uses his vape to show mechanism routes, calls us "kiddos," and ended every lecture (including the first) by saying I love you all and pretending to cry. He does a lot of rambling, which I'm not a fan of but some people eat it up. He is very clear in his lectures about what will and won't be on the test, with the added bonus of him culling a lot of the stuff because he finds it redundant. The actual labs are super boring and have ridiculously long waiting steps. The majority of them are just running TLC, staining it, and then performing liquid-liquid extractions. Get lucky with a lab partner and it won't be so bad. Whoever grades the pre and post-labs has some sort of deep rooted anger that they're taking out on the students though. It is so upright and will just take points off for random stuff, which sucks because that's like your entire grade. The final was easy enough that it didn't matter though.
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