Reddit reviews Organic Chemistry As a Second Language: Second Semester Topics
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This is an excellent book to get you familiar with the basic concepts:
https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Second-Language-Semester/dp/1118144341
Can find it as a PDF on Libgen
These two books helped me through Ochem: Organic Chemistry as a Second Language Vol. 1 and Vol 2. The guy also has a very good text book that comes with an absolutely ENORMOUS answer book that has every single problem in the textbook mapped out. I don't recommend the Wiley Plus/Orion online homework system thing, but these are great resources.
If you're learning about this stuff for the first time now, then you should probably get this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Chemistry-Second-Language-Semester/dp/1118144341/ref=dp_ob_title_bk.
You should definitely buy it, as that's, you know, the morally correct thing to do, but there are other ways to obtain it online...
The basic concepts and rationale behind the mechanisms are explained really clearly, and there are problems throughout and at the end of each chapter to help consolidate your understanding of it all. Would highly recommend it.
Study "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language: Second semester topics".
http://amzn.com/1118144341
It's really great. I still scan through it from time to time.
Jack,
Firstly, take a deep breath!
Secondly, regarding your statement in your post, yes I got an A in OChem 2 - it seemed impossible as I was as stressed as you are! What really helped me was doing practice problems out of Organic Chemistry as a Second Language (because it really is)! In addition to this, I combed google for any practice exams or quizzes related to the topics covered on the exam (i.e., googled Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Exam with Solutions) and went over those. For topics that I had a really hard time with, I researched for a conceptual understanding in addition to the mechanism (like why do the NMR spectropscopy present as they do, instead of memorizing where the peaks would come up) and made it a point to know that well in addition to the exam studying.
From reading your post, it sounds like your first professor was a conceptual teacher that then focused on the specific mechanisms (understanding the why and how to the mechanism). Your second professor seems like a mechanism writer, which I am sorry for as it does no justice to the beauty that is chemistry.
I hope this has helped!