CHM 2046

4/5

General Chemistry 2

3 credits

Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer

Chemistry

Gen Ed: Physical Sciences

Weed-out

Lab component

Equilibrium, acids and bases, kinetics, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. Gateway to Organic Chemistry - a weak foundation here makes CHM 2210 much harder.

Typical workload: ~10 hrs/week outside class

Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 15 majors, and 142 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.

Why students take this

From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 15 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 2 (freshman year) and part of critical tracking for 15 majors.

Biomedical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Dietetics

Environmental Engineering

Food Science

Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Management in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Marine Sciences, CLAS

Marine Sciences, CALS

Microbiology and Cell Science, CALS

Microbiology and Cell Science, CLAS

+5 more majors

Prerequisites

Chain shows catalog-listed prerequisite courses.

CHM 2045CHM 2046

You need one of CHM 2045, CHM 2095, CHM 2050, MAC 1147, or MAC 1140, and MAC 1114 first.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as CHM 2046.

What it unlocks

142 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).

CHM 2210 · Organic Chemistry 1

MCB 3020 · Basic Biology of Microorganisms

ABE 4655C · Bio-Based Products from Renewable Resources

BCH 3023 · Elementary Organic and Biological Chemistry

BME 2402 · Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering

BME 3060 · Biomedical Fundamentals

BOT 3503 · Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

BSC 3096 · Human Physiology

CHM 2046L · General Chemistry 2 Laboratory

CHM 2200 · Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry

CHM 2212 · Organic Chemistry 1 for Majors

CHM 3100 · Introduction to Analytical Chemistry for Majors

CHM 3120 · Introduction to Analytical Chemistry

CHM 3120L · Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

CHM 3217 · Organic Chemistry/Biochemistry 1

CHM 4412 · Physical Chemistry: Chemical Bonding and Spectroscopy

ECH 3023 · Material and Energy Balances

EES 3206 · Environmental Chemistry

ENV 4041C · Environmental Analysis

FOS 4318 · Flavor Chemistry

MCB 3023 · Principles of Microbiology

PCB 3713C · Cellular and Systems Physiology

PCB 4723C · Physiology and Molecular Biology of Animals

SWS 4550 · Soils, Water and Public Health

VME 3001 · The Dog

VME 3002 · The Cat Class

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Career relevance

Critical for: Physician Assistant (PA)

Critical for: Pharmacy (PharmD)

Fall 2026 sections

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Critical tracking for 15 majors

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