In the USA, organic chemistry is required by the vast majority of medical schools, and organic chemistry I is a prereq for biochemistry in most colleges.
Your average applicant is going to have Orgo1/2 and biochemistry though.
As far as the questions go, one was a multistep synthesis (It seemed to screw up markovnikov vs anti markovnikov addition if I had to guess where it went wrong).
It didnt seem to do well with HNMR, or Fischer projections, it also got a mechanism of ring breaking wrong.
It did get the question right regarding stability of chair conformations though.
I cant post the exact questions as im not home where my old Ochem book is, but those are the jists.
It seems to struggle with the more visual problems.
Edit: The AAMC has a list of requirements for med schools, so far I’ve seen… 3 that dont require Ochem and use biochem in its place? Thats certainly not all of them, but theyre also certainly a extremely small minority. Although again, most universities also have Ochem1 as a prereq for Biochem. And if you’re college is an ACS compliant university, they’ll make you take ochem 2 for biochemistry also. Which is lame.
In the USA, organic chemistry is required by the vast majority of medical schools, and organic chemistry I is a prereq for biochemistry in most colleges.
Your average applicant is going to have Orgo1/2 and biochemistry though.
As far as the questions go, one was a multistep synthesis (It seemed to screw up markovnikov vs anti markovnikov addition if I had to guess where it went wrong).
It didnt seem to do well with HNMR, or Fischer projections, it also got a mechanism of ring breaking wrong.
It did get the question right regarding stability of chair conformations though.
I cant post the exact questions as im not home where my old Ochem book is, but those are the jists.
It seems to struggle with the more visual problems.
Edit: The AAMC has a list of requirements for med schools, so far I’ve seen… 3 that dont require Ochem and use biochem in its place? Thats certainly not all of them, but theyre also certainly a extremely small minority. Although again, most universities also have Ochem1 as a prereq for Biochem. And if you’re college is an ACS compliant university, they’ll make you take ochem 2 for biochemistry also. Which is lame.