<p>I will probably be taking organic chemistry in the fall, without having taken genchem at my university (I will be using my AP score to play me into orgo). How much knowledge of genchem do you really need to know for orgo? what type of concepts do you need to remember?</p>
<p>You’ll be fine! You need pretty much nothing from Gen Chem to be successful in Orgo. IMHO it does stand by itself. One of my friends took Orgo without having taken ANY Gen Chem at ALL–AP or College-Level–and he got a B+ in the course. His girlfriend took Gen Chem I but not II and ended up with a B- in Orgo I [she got a C- in Gen Chem I] </p>
<p>Don’t sweat it! Do you work on time, go to class and pay attention [take notes if you have to], and keep up with the text reading, and you’re looking at a solid grade!</p>
<p>I agree, other than knowing what lewis structure, formal chrages, and dimilst stuff are, there isn’t any overlap.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say that. First of all, med schools are not fond of AP credit, with maybe the exception of math ones. Second of all, having nomenclature down packed before orgo is very beneficial. The professor WILL expect you to remember the difference between an amide and amine from day one and then apply that to a reaction. You need to remember the basics from gen chem (and not just nomenclature and lewis structures…kinetics and thermodynamics come up too) otherwise you will be making an already difficult subject more confusing.</p>
<p>I agree that AP credit isn’t the way to go, but I don’t think that gen chem really prepares you more than AP chem does for o-chem. Nomenclature, at least in my school, was part of the course. I knew what an amine was, but I certainly didn’t know the nomenclature rules for carbon containing molecules and all of their funcitonal groups. I took gen chem in college rather than my AP credit. I’m glad I did, but not because it prepped me for O-chem. I agree that kinetics and thermodynamics came up, especially if you are taking o-chem for majors, but it was still pretty separate from the stuff I was taught in gen chem.</p>