CHEM 14D
Organic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 14C with grade of C- or better. Organic reactions, nucleophilic and electrophilic substitutions and additions; electrophilic aromatic substitutions, carbonyl reactions, catalysis, molecular basis of drug action, and organic chemistry of pharmaceuticals. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Dr. Gould is amazing! She made organic chemistry enjoyable and easy to understand. She was so caring and always available in her office for a quick question. Not only was she a very nice lady and always helpful, she was also very organized in lecture, and I loved that she gave practice problems during lecture because then you had extra material to study for the exams. I thought her lecturing style was great - I felt like I really understood what was going on thoroughly. As for her exams, she was NOT out to trick you. More than anything, she wanted you to really get the concepts and apply them. Though some professors say this, Gould really meant it. As long as you did this, you would do well on her exams. I am so happy she taught 14D during this quarter because she was fair, helpful, and overall a great professor. I'm so happy I had her for my last course in the chemistry series because left a great impression on me for my chemistry experience at UCLA. If you have the opportunity to take her, DO!!
Dr. Gould is amazing! She made organic chemistry enjoyable and easy to understand. She was so caring and always available in her office for a quick question. Not only was she a very nice lady and always helpful, she was also very organized in lecture, and I loved that she gave practice problems during lecture because then you had extra material to study for the exams. I thought her lecturing style was great - I felt like I really understood what was going on thoroughly. As for her exams, she was NOT out to trick you. More than anything, she wanted you to really get the concepts and apply them. Though some professors say this, Gould really meant it. As long as you did this, you would do well on her exams. I am so happy she taught 14D during this quarter because she was fair, helpful, and overall a great professor. I'm so happy I had her for my last course in the chemistry series because left a great impression on me for my chemistry experience at UCLA. If you have the opportunity to take her, DO!!
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Winter 2018 - I'm selling my molecular model kits (near mint condition). It helped me a lot visualizing the molecular structures, and since I'm done with the 14 series I'm selling it. Text me at ********** if interested :) (I'm moving so will be packing stuff up after 6/14, so please contact me ASAP if interested!) Professor Hardinger is incredibly good at communicating course materials in a non-boring way and making everything so clear, and the analogies he used turned out to be very helpful. The best thing about this class is that there is SO much resources that be be utilized, e.g. LA workshop, the numerous tutorials, glossary, and finally, the Thinkbook and past exams, which are absolutely the most helpful and which I hope every science class has. Prof. Hardinger's own website is also a great idea, and with that many resources it's basically impossible to not be good at 14D. This has to be the first time in my life that I study chemistry this diligently and painlessly (coming from a person who used to haaaaaaate chemistry), and this class should be the example of what every other south campus class should be like.
Winter 2018 - I'm selling my molecular model kits (near mint condition). It helped me a lot visualizing the molecular structures, and since I'm done with the 14 series I'm selling it. Text me at ********** if interested :) (I'm moving so will be packing stuff up after 6/14, so please contact me ASAP if interested!) Professor Hardinger is incredibly good at communicating course materials in a non-boring way and making everything so clear, and the analogies he used turned out to be very helpful. The best thing about this class is that there is SO much resources that be be utilized, e.g. LA workshop, the numerous tutorials, glossary, and finally, the Thinkbook and past exams, which are absolutely the most helpful and which I hope every science class has. Prof. Hardinger's own website is also a great idea, and with that many resources it's basically impossible to not be good at 14D. This has to be the first time in my life that I study chemistry this diligently and painlessly (coming from a person who used to haaaaaaate chemistry), and this class should be the example of what every other south campus class should be like.
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Professor Karim was an excellent professor. He says from the beginning that the class it there to prepare us for the MCAT, so he only focuses on the big reactions and only includes the exceptions that will be on standardized tests. I won't lie, his exams are hard but if you know the material and have done lots of practice then they are do-able. He is a great guy and will help you out when you go to office hours. I am expecting an A in the class, but again, it took alot of work to get the grade. I'm taking MCAT classes now, and as I look over the MCAT organic chemistry questions I fell very well prepared. The way I see it, you can take Hardinger and get an A arguably more easily, but Hardinger focuses on useless exceptions that never show up on the MCAT, with Karim if you work hard you can get an A and at the same time be prepared very well for the MCAT. Take Him!
Professor Karim was an excellent professor. He says from the beginning that the class it there to prepare us for the MCAT, so he only focuses on the big reactions and only includes the exceptions that will be on standardized tests. I won't lie, his exams are hard but if you know the material and have done lots of practice then they are do-able. He is a great guy and will help you out when you go to office hours. I am expecting an A in the class, but again, it took alot of work to get the grade. I'm taking MCAT classes now, and as I look over the MCAT organic chemistry questions I fell very well prepared. The way I see it, you can take Hardinger and get an A arguably more easily, but Hardinger focuses on useless exceptions that never show up on the MCAT, with Karim if you work hard you can get an A and at the same time be prepared very well for the MCAT. Take Him!
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Prof. Luceigh is a wonderful professor. From previous students I had high expectation of her and they were mostly fulfilled. She has a passion for chemistry and she will try to make chem understandable for you. This quarter she had the tendency to go fast in lectures and sometime I found her course guide to be somewhat frustrating because she has the tendency to put down questions yet never answer them in the reader and lectures. overall the reader is a critical tool in her class. Do her practice exams...they will be somewhat similar to the exam you will take. Her exams were very fair this quarter overall she is a great prof to have for chem.
Prof. Luceigh is a wonderful professor. From previous students I had high expectation of her and they were mostly fulfilled. She has a passion for chemistry and she will try to make chem understandable for you. This quarter she had the tendency to go fast in lectures and sometime I found her course guide to be somewhat frustrating because she has the tendency to put down questions yet never answer them in the reader and lectures. overall the reader is a critical tool in her class. Do her practice exams...they will be somewhat similar to the exam you will take. Her exams were very fair this quarter overall she is a great prof to have for chem.
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Spring 2024 - Professor Raji screwed the students over this quarter. I was well above average on the final and both midterms yet I received a C+ in the class (unless he ends up curving the grades more). He was incredibly unclear and barely followed any sort of organization or slide shows. Therefore, when students went to discussion, the TAs had no idea what he had gone over in class. He frequently went off on tangents and would teach different concepts to his two different lectures. He made students feel stupid for not understand the complex questions he asked in lectures and on tests. Furthermore, while it is great to encourage in class participation, he would frequently choose 5-10 students to solve practice problems on the board for the whole lecture (which is not an ideal format for a 250 person lecture). I had a 4.0 before taking this class and put A LOT of time into studying. After all this, I still received a C+ so I strongly strongly suggest you take it with another professor if at all possible.
Spring 2024 - Professor Raji screwed the students over this quarter. I was well above average on the final and both midterms yet I received a C+ in the class (unless he ends up curving the grades more). He was incredibly unclear and barely followed any sort of organization or slide shows. Therefore, when students went to discussion, the TAs had no idea what he had gone over in class. He frequently went off on tangents and would teach different concepts to his two different lectures. He made students feel stupid for not understand the complex questions he asked in lectures and on tests. Furthermore, while it is great to encourage in class participation, he would frequently choose 5-10 students to solve practice problems on the board for the whole lecture (which is not an ideal format for a 250 person lecture). I had a 4.0 before taking this class and put A LOT of time into studying. After all this, I still received a C+ so I strongly strongly suggest you take it with another professor if at all possible.
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She was a good teacher I enjoyed her. I recommend studying the problem sets and the reaction list. Take notes of the mechanisms and know them. You can memorize the reaction list and still do fair on all her tests. Those are most important and actually going to lass for the extra credit points.
She was a good teacher I enjoyed her. I recommend studying the problem sets and the reaction list. Take notes of the mechanisms and know them. You can memorize the reaction list and still do fair on all her tests. Those are most important and actually going to lass for the extra credit points.
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Fall 2022 - Participation doesn't matter so that slays but I don't feel like the prof is as good as everyone hypes him up to be. He goes SUUUUPER FAST!! And u have to do hella practice probs bc his tests were hard IMO. But if there's no other choices, then u can def do well in this class if u work for it
Fall 2022 - Participation doesn't matter so that slays but I don't feel like the prof is as good as everyone hypes him up to be. He goes SUUUUPER FAST!! And u have to do hella practice probs bc his tests were hard IMO. But if there's no other choices, then u can def do well in this class if u work for it
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