Any advise on how to remember endless organic chemistry reactions + the required conditions?
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I made flashcards while studying organic chemistry.  Break all the reactions down into the different types of reactions, then make a flashcard for each reaction within all of the types of reactions.  If you want to, you could leave certain details out, like solvents or conditions, and put them on the back to make sure you are remembering them.  I would also write for what cases the reactions would work on each card (eg. primary and secondary alcohols only).  It might be a lot of work to write them out, but it worked for me.  Also, just writing them out will probably help too.  Good luck!!
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This site should help you.\n\nhttp://sparknotes.com/chemistry\n\nGood luck.
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Try doing a Google search under the Hall or the Hall-Heroult process.    That or check out a General or an Inorganic Chemistry book from the library.  That's a good launch point.
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Think about it differently.  Before you go the drug route or anything like that, sit at your desk for 15 minutes or however long you can, and study a chapter, an equation, a definition...whatever it is.  Then, instead of just walking away and zoning out for a bit, take your book or notes, and sit down at your kitchen table.  Study another chapter, equation, question or definition there for awhile.  Then, head out front to your front porch, or back yard, and continue to do it.  \n\nI'm the same way, but I found that doing that not only takes out the monotony of studying, but when it comes time to take the test or give the presentation, I associate certain parts of what I studied with where I was studying it.  Maybe, I remember looking at a particular tree while I was trying to memorize a set of words or somethnig, you know what I mean?  It kind of triggers the memory and helps me out a bit.
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seriously, anybody who needs to know this shold know how to search the chemical literature. Go to Chemical Abstracts. Talk to your librarian.
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Hey, Blond fuss?  Good luck if U can't find help @ this late hour. Keep working on it.  Something from what U learned so far must b in your head - find it. No one else working on this problem awake?\n  I'm tired (12:35 a.m. here @ UMAss Amherst).  Had 1st-yr Chem 100 in 1978, not Chem 1111 !! Barely remember orbitals.  U do have books there, don't U?   Library maybe not open now as ours is.    \n Aces 2 computer. So U have awhile 2 figure it out.  Good luck.
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These references would be a good start.  Really, any old organic textbook would be the best.
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Consider ordering a Chemistry magazine from your local University or nearby University. ChemCorner usually has lots of information about current research etc.
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Here's a way to turn a common household chemical reaction into some fun.\n\nhttp://www.torgo.org/bpsubs/
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To be used ONLY for difficult-to-remember things:\n\nMake flashcards, each with a question on one side and then the answer on the other side, e.g. What is an enzyme?  (on Side A).  On Side B write, "An enzyme is a protein, synthesize by the living cell, which catalyzes thermo-dynamically feasible reaction by lowering the energy of activation so that the rate is compatible with the conditions of the living cell." (that one I learnt years ago in biochemistry class in college, AND I STILL REMEMBER IT !!!)\n\nA) With 30 - 40 such cards, develop rules such that you and your friends can play a card game, using these cards. \n\nB) Challenge you little sister that by the end of the week, you will know, say, everything on cards 1 to 15.  For everyone you do not know, you will give her 50 cents!! \n\nC) If you have waiting time, such as 30 minutes on the bus, use it to review information on 5 of the cards.
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A few things I did when I was studying:\n\n1. Visualize the reactions as animated. Try to actually imagine the atoms/molecules detaching from so-and-so location and going to the other. Makes it easier to spot patterns across different reactions.\n\n2. Study a few of the toughest bits right before you go to bed. Your subconscious tends to latch on to whatever you are thinking about when you go to sleep, so the next morning, you'll find those parts easy to understand. This really works, and not only for Organic Chemistry.\n\n3. Another user has suggested Flash Cards. I'd prefer 'cheat sheets' - complete sheets of paper with concise descriptions of the toughest bits, glued to your bathroom mirror or kept at your dining table to casual referral whenever you happen to pass that way. \n\nHope this helps. Best of luck for your final!
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Just count the (sigma) bonds and the lone electron pairs and memorize the cooresponding geometric shapes.  Sorry, but it's the only way.
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You might want to try to re-read the questions.  You don't appear to be understanding what is written there.  (I call it a brain fart, but three out of 28 indicates a little lack of understanding)\n\nIf you have re-read the problems, then I offer the below:\n\nYou might want to go over your notes about what a mole is.  It is an amount and a number.  It is a fundamental conceptual building block for the study of chemistry.\n\n  It looks like you expect to be able to plug and chug on these.  Which you can, once you start thinking in terms of atoms and molecules.  Plugging and chugging BEFORE you understand what these little pieces are doing is a recipe for a C.\nIt IS the ATOMIC theory of matter, don't you know.\n\nSo, once you've absorbed that, re-read these three problems.\n\nStill no joy?  Read on, Gunga DIn\n\nFirst H(g) is NOT the element's standard state! I thought everybody learned in grade school about H2 gas - the simplest molecule?  Iodine, I leave to you  (hint a gas???!!! not)\n\nSecond lets see you're making umpteen moles of something and calculate the dS.  that was not the question.  (hint: something about ONE mole)\n\nThird read the problem. your chemical equation is from I don't know where but not from what is in the problem. (hint: products on the LEFT???)
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This is what I have discovered.  Read over the material in the book or your notes from class (as soon after the class as possible).  Have a small tape recorder next to you and turn it on while you say in your own words the important things to remember to do well in the test.   Once you have the tape, listen to it several times especially times that are available as multitask times (ie.  while driving the car, walking, jogging, working out.  You can even listen when you want to take a nap.  Just start listening and go ahead and fall asleep if you want, it can't hurt as long as you listen to your own tape as many times as possible.  If the lectures are recordable then you can also make a tape of the instructors lecture.  Listen a zillion times and you will have the stuff practically memorized with almost no effort.
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1.) do your own homework\n2.) this is the computer forum, not high-school chemistry.  Next time post to the right furom.
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http://www.olysun.com/Chem_121/Soln.html\n\n\ncc
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http://genchem.chem.wisc.edu/sstutorial/FunChem.htm