Just try your damndest. If other people can do it I'm sure you can get yourself there too. Just think of the good things that'll come of it and that great feeling you'll have when you passed it. If you don't get it the first time just try again
That organic chemistry, making sense of shit like that. What elements go where, how they are bonded, why they bonded that way, is it di-methyl or tri-methyl, eaters and ethers etc. At one time I could have broke that structure down and figured it all out, but not so much now. It's not as bad as you're making it out to be though.
I was pretty proficient at it when taking it, but haven't used it in years. I certainly need a refesher, but I may be of limited help. At one point I knew it all anyway.
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If I had stayed with my original major I would've had to take it. A lot of my friends have taken it and they all bitched about it, but I'm pretty sure they all passed.
That's some really advanced shit I posted. It starts of much more basic and builds from there. You satart 1-10 and build from there.
1- methane CH4
Carbon isn't happy unless it is fully bonded up (attached to other shit, like hydrogen) and can have 4 bonds. 1 carbon and 4 hydrogens is methane. It's actually a 3rd model, so the lines that squiggle and the line that is thick like a wedge show depth and just help remind you that it isn't a flat model. Easy peasy so far.
ethane C2H6 Same thing, only 2 carbons this time, and enough H to give each C molecule 4 bonds. propane 3 C butane 4C pentane 5C hexane 6C heptane 7C octane 8C nonane 9C decane 10 C
The hardest part is memorizing the prefixes for 1-10, and that isnt bad. Plus, that why programmable calculators were made, to store chemical equations in.
When you get into bigger structures, like a bi-ethyl something or tri-methyl something, it is just counting what carbon the other thing branches off of, and how many branches it has.
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Have you taken a test in the class yet?
At least I'll have Moonsorrow/Tyr and get to hang with friends later tomorrow night \m/
are you good at organic chemistry? would you help me?
I dropped it.
1- methane CH4
Carbon isn't happy unless it is fully bonded up (attached to other shit, like hydrogen) and can have 4 bonds. 1 carbon and 4 hydrogens is methane. It's actually a 3rd model, so the lines that squiggle and the line that is thick like a wedge show depth and just help remind you that it isn't a flat model.
Easy peasy so far.
ethane C2H6
Same thing, only 2 carbons this time, and enough H to give each C molecule 4 bonds.
propane 3 C
butane 4C
pentane 5C
hexane 6C
heptane 7C
octane 8C
nonane 9C
decane 10 C
The hardest part is memorizing the prefixes for 1-10, and that isnt bad. Plus, that why programmable calculators were made, to store chemical equations in.
Meth=1st carbon, oxy is the oxygen attached. The ethane is the 2 carbons attached.