Practice Problems

The best way to learn organic chemistry is by challenging yourself with problems. It is not true that you need to spend late nights memorizing material straight from the book. Doing problems helps you to recognize patterns and find out where your understanding is lacking. Having graded countless exams throughout my graduate career, I have found that even the best memorizers tend to make small mistakes. The students who understand can write out the mechanisms, or draw attack arrows, and all their doodling seems to help.

I will be posting commentary for difficult problems as well as resources here. All posts will be open for comments, as a way to supplement for the inability to ask questions in the large lecture hall. Hopefully, through dialog, we can make organic chemistry a little more approachable.