CHEM 30C
Organic Chemistry III: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Biomolecules
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 30B with grade of C- or better. Third term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Chemistry of enolates, enamines, dicarbonyl compounds, and amines. Molecular orbital theory and conjugated pi systems; UV/vis spectroscopy. Aromaticity and reactions of aromatic molecules. Heterocycles, pericyclic reactions, carbohydrates, and lipids. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
1 of 1
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2024 - Well, I thought I was decent in ochem after getting As on both 30A and 30B. Professor Maynard didn't make this class fun, and it's very obvious that she treated this class as a second priority based on how late she wrote the exams and how many errors there were on the key. Additionally, she made the tests very difficult and multiple choice--which for ochem, why???? There was no wiggle room or extra credit, and we weren't just supposed to know mechanisms, but we were supposed to understand them super in depth to apply to all different reactions/conditions. If you struggled in ochem 30A/30B I highly recommend you DONT take it with this professor, and if you HAVE to take it without choice, please read the textbook beforehand and ahead of time. You would be almost a whole chapter behind if you miss class for a day.
Winter 2024 - Well, I thought I was decent in ochem after getting As on both 30A and 30B. Professor Maynard didn't make this class fun, and it's very obvious that she treated this class as a second priority based on how late she wrote the exams and how many errors there were on the key. Additionally, she made the tests very difficult and multiple choice--which for ochem, why???? There was no wiggle room or extra credit, and we weren't just supposed to know mechanisms, but we were supposed to understand them super in depth to apply to all different reactions/conditions. If you struggled in ochem 30A/30B I highly recommend you DONT take it with this professor, and if you HAVE to take it without choice, please read the textbook beforehand and ahead of time. You would be almost a whole chapter behind if you miss class for a day.
AD
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2023 - Wow this class was something else. merlic was a fantastic lecturer and the content was so interesting but the grades were so all over the place? There were weekly quizzes (STARTING WEEK 1?!) and he did not explicitly have a grading scale so he would just curve individually. The class average was always an F or a D- which was kinda funny, but even though I scored higher or equal to the class average on every exam I ended up getting a B-?.... also I know someone who got below the average on every exam but ended up with an A- so I'm really confused. I guess he grades on how drastically your score increases not on how high your score actually is compared to the average.
Spring 2023 - Wow this class was something else. merlic was a fantastic lecturer and the content was so interesting but the grades were so all over the place? There were weekly quizzes (STARTING WEEK 1?!) and he did not explicitly have a grading scale so he would just curve individually. The class average was always an F or a D- which was kinda funny, but even though I scored higher or equal to the class average on every exam I ended up getting a B-?.... also I know someone who got below the average on every exam but ended up with an A- so I'm really confused. I guess he grades on how drastically your score increases not on how high your score actually is compared to the average.
1 of 1
