Glorious King Franklin Ow.

While this is the last of the 30 series, I'd say that in terms of difficulty it is actually slightly easier than 30B. There is a lot of material to get through, but in terms of variety it's less than 30B because you have a lot more patterns to utilize.

With regards to the professor, he's one of the best at UCLA and a personal favorite of mine. His expectations are always very clear in terms of what you need to know and as a lecturer he's fantastic at conveying the material in an effective way. I walked out of almost every lecture feeling confident I understood everything he explained. Dr. Ow is very emphatic on patterns you can recognize as a sort of shortcut for learning the reaction mechanisms and products, which makes it easy to pick up on things quick. He's succinct with the only fluff being him trying to engage deeper with the material by explaining pharmaceutical or industrial applications of certain organic compounds and reactions. He's also quite funny and sometimes uses anecdotes to describe parts of the class. I found the lectures to be engaging and effective, so I went even though they're recorded and livestreamed on Zoom.

Given the course, you definitely need to still be practicing with the textbook problems provided. I don't have the exact gradescheme because I no longer have access to the Canvas course, but it is similar if not identical to the other Ow markschemes. Discussion attendance was probably around 10%, the two midterms made up 40%, the final was about 30%, and the remaining 20% was split between the best of 5/7 quiz grades. I thought everything was very fair, and the average was in the high 70s to 80s for the midterms. He also always reserves lectures for review before exams, which is pretty helpful because it shows problem solving strategies and gives you a hint as to what to expect on the exam. All of the exams and quizzes are very doable if you're keeping up with the material, and the final and quizzes were all multiple choice. A small amount of extra credit is also offered for filling out LA surveys and course evaluations, in addition to turning in your submission of the practice exams. Because this is organic chemistry, you can't leave it on the backburner, but if you're keeping it in view, it's very very feasible to do well.