How much normal chemistry would I need to learn in order to learn organic chemistry?

Mr.Popular: How much normal chemistry would I need to learn in order to learn organic chemistry?
can someone give me some guidelines?

I don’t want to waste time learning chemistry in uber-detail. Just enough to start learning about organic chemistry and understand it.

Answers and Views:

Answer by sunflowers
3 quarters at college. Which would be 3 years worth of high school chem.

It is definitely NOT easy stuff. I got through 3 quarters of the basic chem at college and freaked out at the organic chem the first quarter and got a D in it.

Answer by Richard
Most of what you learned in chemistry will still be used.

Answer by Question Mark
oh… some1 said 3 years of college… lol… i do igcse (british for SAT kinda exams) and we r gonna start organic chemistry next week…. last topic to cover…. so that would mean 1 year of school where there are other subjects 2… i have 3 lessons a week… each lesson is 40 mins long… so thats uhh… 6 months of skool (without weekends) times 30 days a month divided by three times forty… lol… 60*40=2400 minutes. which is uhh… 40 hours. of teaching.

Answer by l3thargik
Organic chemistry is linked with quantum chemistry, inorganic chemistry, thermodynamics… To understand organic chemistry really well, you should know the theory of molecular orbitals perturbations (MOP). Don’t be so narrow-minded!

Answer by rubidium.chloride
Well, you should learn all the basics of chemistry before you can learn organic chemistry. You have to learn more about ionic and covalent bonds. Remember that in organic chemistry, most of the substances you will be dealing with are covalent compounds.

You also need to review chemical bonding, because when someone asks you the stepwise mechanism of the reaction, you need to include the flow of electrons from one atom to another.

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Answer by trikha
You need to know elementry chemistry fairly well before you can lay hand on organic chemistry.
You must have a good understabding of chapters / portions relat to structure of atom, bonding, hybridization, shape of molecules, electronic displacement, polarity, cause of reactivity, etc.

If you study regularly without getting scared / afraid of organic chemistry. Slowly you may fall in love with it. If you do not try to understand and depend only on memorizing it then you are bound to hate it and run away from it.
Try to hold the knowledge which you have acqired and began to understand. Because what you learn today will be used later on to undersatand more of organic chemistry.