CHM 2210

5/5

Organic Chemistry 1

3 credits

Offered: Fall

Chemistry

Bottleneck

Weed-out

Structure, nomenclature, stereochemistry, and reaction mechanisms of organic compounds. THE pre-med filter course at UF — exam averages routinely sit in the 60s. Primarily a fall offering, so missing it delays the whole OChem sequence by a year.

Typical workload: ~14 hrs/week outside class

Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 3 majors, and 58 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 7 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 3 (sophomore year) and part of critical tracking for 3 majors.

Biomedical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Food Science

Microbiology and Cell Science, CALS

Microbiology and Cell Science, CLAS

Nutritional Sciences

Zoology

Prerequisites

Chain shows catalog-listed prerequisite courses.

CHM 2045CHM 2046CHM 2210

You need one of CHM 2046, CHM 2096, CHM 2047, or CHM 2051 first.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as CHM 2210.

What it unlocks

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

CHM 2211 · Organic Chemistry 2

BCH 3025 · Fundamentals of Biochemistry

BCH 4905 · Biochemistry Senior Research

BME 3101 · Biomedical Materials

BME 4311 · Molecular Biomedical Engineering

BME 4621 · Biomolecular Thermodynamics and Kinetics

CHM 2211L · Organic Chemistry Laboratory

CHM 2213 · Organic Chemistry 2 for Majors

CHM 3400 · Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences

FOS 4311 · Food Chemistry

FOS 4318 · Flavor Chemistry

FOS 4321C · Food Analysis

PCB 3134 · Eukaryotic Cell Structure and Function

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Career relevance

Heavily tested on the MCAT; med schools look closely at OChem grades.

Critical for: Medical School (MD)

Critical for: Dental School (DMD)

Critical for: Pharmacy (PharmD)

Fall 2026 sections

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Critical tracking for 3 majors

Fall only

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