Three Ways to Save Points on Your Organic Chemistry Final
1) Use the correct arrow As you’ve probably learned, organic chemists use different arrows to indicate different things. By the time the final comes around, your instructor expects you to use them correctly and will often dock you a point or two every time you use the wrong type of arrow on the final. So even if you understand the rest of the material, the hard stuff, you can cost yourself as much as half credit on a tough problem. Here’s a quick review of arrows and when they’re used: Reaction arrows are straight, single-headed arrows that show the progress of a reaction from reactants to intermediates to products. There usually isn’t any confusion about(more...)
