CHM 2211

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Organic Chemistry 2

3 credits

Offered: Spring

Chemistry

Weed-out

Lab component

Continuation of CHM 2210: carbonyl chemistry, aromaticity, spectroscopy, and multi-step synthesis. Spring offering that follows directly from OChem 1; usually taken alongside the CHM 2211L lab.

Typical workload: ~14 hrs/week outside class

Do not delay. 54 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.

Why students take this

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Scheduled in 7 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 4 (sophomore year).

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 2210CHM 2211

You need CHM 2210 or CHM 2212, and CHM 2211L first.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as CHM 2211.

What it unlocks

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

BCH 4024 · Introduction to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

BCH 3025 · Fundamentals of Biochemistry

BCH 4905 · Biochemistry Senior Research

BME 3101 · Biomedical Materials

BME 4621 · Biomolecular Thermodynamics and Kinetics

CHM 2211L · Organic Chemistry Laboratory

CHM 3218 · Organic Chemistry/Biochemistry 2

CHM 3610 · Inorganic Chemistry

CHM 4130 · Instrumental Analysis

CHM 4130L · Instrumental Analysis Laboratory

CHM 4230 · Organic Spectroscopy

CHM 4272 · The Organic Chemistry of Polymers

CHM 4300L · Laboratory in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

FOS 4311 · Food Chemistry

FOS 4318 · Flavor Chemistry

FOS 4321C · Food Analysis

HUN 4445 · Nutrition and Disease: Part 1

HUN 4813C · Laboratory Techniques in Molecular Nutrition

MCB 4403 · Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function

PCB 3134 · Eukaryotic Cell Structure and Function

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Career relevance

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