Comment on Organic chemistry is killing me🤯.

• Stomata@buddyverse.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be honest not the hardest but super hard and takes really long time to get into it

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• TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oddly, I found it far more intuitive and entertaining than gen chem, yet barely got through orgo 1 with a D

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me it was the opposite. Classic chemistry: redox / pressure / temperature. Three dials and you’ll get what you want as long as the atoms are there.

    Compare to

    Here’s how glucose relates to the ADP/ATP cycle! It doesn’t work unless temperature is 37C ± 1C

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s biochem. O chem is is this reaction a substitution or replacement. Does this catalyst make a product in cis or trans orientation. Etc

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