<p>“Mechanisms simply try display flow of charge in chemical reactions, thus MO is not needed to understand arrow formalisms.”</p>
<p>no. i’m pretty sure you can’t figure out a mechanism (by yourself, without memorization) without knowing homo-lumo. if you don’t know homo-lumo, it is impossible to know what orbitals are interacting together… you say that MO isn’t needed for arrow formalisms, but what do you think it is that causes flow of charge?</p>
<p>i know someone from 171/172 who got an A in the class and only memorized. and by the way, the people i knew in weinschenk’s class that were freshmen were 1st semester freshmen, and he let them in because he decided that their level of knowledge was too high for the freshman class, and he wanted them to be challenged.</p>
<p>i don’t need to see your tests. i’ve seen them before. i don’t want to argue anymore about this, but it is pretty much a known fact at emory that Weinschenk’s orgo class is one of the most difficult classes here</p>