Problems, problems, problems -- keeping my mind sharp when lecture couldn't. Plus re-writing the chicken scratch notes that resulted from speedy lectures. Having a professor who was a wizard at ochem didn't help. He was crazy fast at writing stuff on the chalkboard and erasing it almost right away lol.
Looks to me like your standard types of organic reactions. The basics of organometallics first, and the only reaction I can see in the picture is the Grignard.
This looks like undergraduate level... surely not? (I guess that's what you get if you advance to undergraduate and you think a shop-bought laminated card will help you through your degree.)
I'm more astounded by the inclusion of the Freund-Gustavson reaction as something of such import. I'd seen that maybe once but didn't even know it had a name.
I prepared my own study guide for every exam in my undergrad classes "back in the day." I attempted to distill the material from the previous weeks into a single page that captured basic concepts, definitions and problem solving. These were infinitely helpful in preparation. I tried this for a semester of graduate work, but found them singularly a waste of time where exams were either multiple-week take home types or exams were very much not like previous week's of exercises and more extensions of the lectures.
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1) Maybe there's a retro-DA in there somewhere?
ReplyDelete2) For some classes, making study guides was helpful, but for organic I generally just did lots of problems, because that's what I liked to do.
Problems, problems, problems -- keeping my mind sharp when lecture couldn't. Plus re-writing the chicken scratch notes that resulted from speedy lectures. Having a professor who was a wizard at ochem didn't help. He was crazy fast at writing stuff on the chalkboard and erasing it almost right away lol.
ReplyDeletetypical undergraduate glitch.
ReplyDeleteHmm... 6 + 6 =10?
ReplyDeleteAs an inorganic type, I'd be curious to find out what the "Metal Reaction" is.
Thermite? Na/K alloy with...anything?
DeleteLooks to me like your standard types of organic reactions. The basics of organometallics first, and the only reaction I can see in the picture is the Grignard.
ReplyDeleteHey Anon 1:24 PM, did you flunk my Orgo I class? :-(
ReplyDeleteSomewhere, out there, is an individual who actually got paid to produce this.
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ReplyDeleteLOL.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like undergraduate level... surely not? (I guess that's what you get if you advance to undergraduate and you think a shop-bought laminated card will help you through your degree.)
ReplyDeleteI'm more astounded by the inclusion of the Freund-Gustavson reaction as something of such import. I'd seen that maybe once but didn't even know it had a name.
I prepared my own study guide for every exam in my undergrad classes "back in the day." I attempted to distill the material from the previous weeks into a single page that captured basic concepts, definitions and problem solving. These were infinitely helpful in preparation. I tried this for a semester of graduate work, but found them singularly a waste of time where exams were either multiple-week take home types or exams were very much not like previous week's of exercises and more extensions of the lectures.
ReplyDeleteOr (as was my experience several times in graduate school) had nothing to do with what had actually been covered in class.
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