<p>That was crazy difficult…</p>
<p>studied a lot, didn’t make a difference LOL :(</p>
<p>i dunno…it wasn’t “hard-hard” (it was tough though …{it felt really weird to type that :D}) but there wasn’t enough time to consider all the possibilities for each problem.</p>
<p>where’d you guys put the Deuterium on the PTP question?</p>
<p>for the HCL problem w/ the sugar…we could’ve done it either of the 2 ways right? (have a water fall off or show the hidden carbonyl and rotate about the single bond)</p>
<p>did you guys put down a reagent that could be used?</p>
<p>any enolate formed on the kamadsfgagadg derivative?</p>
<p>Good questions! I had the same ones on the test.</p>
<p>W T F with the sulfur mech! Ugh I have padding from the first midterm, but yeah this midterm was something else especially the synthesis. Just hoping the average is really low. Nobody in my room left early, which I guess shows that everybody thought it was pretty hard? =/</p>
<p>the 2nd synthesis seemed easy to me. i had no idea how to do the first synthesis. *<strong><em>. i asked some people after the midterm and they were like “that was so easy. it was a retro-diels alder and a wittig” *</em></strong></p>
<p>for the deuterium one i replaced the 2 to the right of the carbonyl and then the gamma hydrogens on the left cuz mechanisms for those made sense… is that right? and i said you can’t use any reagent for that thing and no enolate can be formed. and i could not figure out the first synthesis =/</p>
<p>i don’t remember what I put for the first synthesis…but I had an aldol product and wittig in it…lol i think</p>
<p>I put no for any reagents cuz an oxidation was necessary and all the other -OH groups would be oxidized as well…i might be wrong cuz I remember him mentioning the answer at the end of the lecture last week but I can’t remember what he said…</p>
<p>did pedersen say anything in class today about the midterm? i slept in lol</p>
<p>The first synthesis was Diels alder+Wittig in two steps… I’m pretty sure I got that one. Not sure about the second.</p>
<p>Second one I protected, ozonolysis, grignard with the big alkane, deprotect/prot.</p>
<p>I feel like for the first synthesis it was one where you either got it right away or you didn’t. I saw right away you could do a diels-alder but if you didn’t see it quickly I think it’d be hard to figure out. The second one took some more thought, though.</p>
<p>studied my butt off, got an A- </p>
<p>feeling both 
and 
right now, i needed better than this for an A- in the class… </p>
<p>how did u guys do?</p>
<p>97… is that an A-?
No credit on either synthesis and I missed a lot on the naming somehow? did you guys get the 2 drawing sugar questions?</p>
<p>I slept in and only went for the last 10 minutes to get my midterm. What is the average and st. dev? All I know is my 110 is a lot lower than first midterm =/ Damn nomenclature beats me again!</p>
<p>average 76, sd 31… you did really well lol</p>
<p>check out all these smart kids on this board.
i got below average. not totally unexpected given i only studied a day. damn. need to prep for final</p>
<h1>()$( i need someone to fail with me</h1>
<p>… of the two midterms. i got 10/64 predict the products. anyone have tips…</p>
<p>Yeah predict a product killed me (17/30). Good thing there are more mechs geez they saved my life (44/48).</p>
<p>what’s 1 sd below the mean…? like C- or worse…</p>
<p>I think the cutoff for a C-/D+ is like a 32.</p>