Spring 2027

Advanced Organic Chemistry

Advanced Organic Chemistry covers modern principles of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry, focusing on designing multi-step syntheses and analyzing reaction mechanisms.

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Summary

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Homework was optional, but completing it helped students perform better on exams.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Design, justify, and evaluate multi-step synthetic routes capable of efficiently generating a molecular target from specified starting materials, with an emphasis on modern organic chemistry and natural product synthesis.

  • Construct and use appropriate structural representations to rationalize observed differences in the physical and chemical properties of substances in terms of electrostatics, constructive orbital overlap, and energy differences.

  • Construct and use an electron-pushing mechanism or potential energy surface to evaluate the validity of claims as to the outcome of a chemical process (e.g., pericyclic reactions and carbonyl reactions).

  • Construct and use catalytic cycles to rationalize and predict the outcome of simple organometallic reactions.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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CHEM 345

CHEM 547

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

HANS REICH is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JENNIFER SCHOMAKER is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STEPHEN NELSEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2011. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TEHSHIK YOON is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Tehshik Yoon

Students described this 500-level course as challenging but supported by instructors who worked hard to ensure complete understanding.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.61 GPA, 76.6% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.43 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Tehshik Yoon

Homework was optional, but completing it helped students perform better on exams.

Past student reviews · Jennifer Schomaker

Jennifer Schomaker’s fast-paced lectures initially intimidated one student, but she was patient, accessible, and offered extra credit opportunities.

Topics

  • Synthetic organic chemistry
  • Mechanistic organic chemistry
  • Natural product synthesis
  • Organometallic reactions

Skills

  • Designing and evaluating multi-step synthetic routes for molecular targets.
  • Using electron-pushing mechanisms and potential energy surfaces to evaluate chemical processes.
  • Rationalizing organometallic reaction outcomes using catalytic cycles.

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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