Organic Chemistry II completes the year. Where the first term builds the toolkit — structure, stereochemistry, mechanism, substitution and addition — the second term spends it: aromatic chemistry, carbonyl chemistry, and the multi-step syntheses that combine everything. The statewide record treats the pair as a unit: CHM2210 + CHM2211 = one year of organic.
Carried by 29 Florida public institutions.
⚠ Most students find this term more manageable than the first, and the reason is worth knowing. Organic I asks you to learn a new way of thinking; Organic II asks you to apply it to more reactions. The volume is larger and the conceptual jump is smaller — provided the mechanisms from the first term became automatic. Where they did not, this is the term that finds out.
Completing the full year is what actually satisfies the requirement. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, optometry and physician assistant programmes require both terms, and most require both laboratories. It is also required for chemistry, biochemistry, biology and chemical engineering — the only engineering discipline that requires organic chemistry, and the reason this course appears on the Chemical Engineer career path in this repository.
⚠ The second term is the one that carries the most professional weight, because carbonyl chemistry and spectroscopy are what pharmaceutical, biotechnology and analytical laboratory work actually use. In Florida that means pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing, environmental and water-quality laboratories, forensic chemistry and the specialty chemicals industry.
The statewide record carries the usual line — “guaranteed transfer to institution offering same course” — and then, in the course description itself, this:
“WARNING: THIS IS THE (2) PART OF A SEQUENCE OF (2) COURSES. A ‘sequence’ once started should be taken entirely at one institution. The order of topics may vary from school to school. Only the completed sequence at one institution is equivalent to a completed sequence at another institution. Individual courses within a sequence are not necessarily equivalent, and must be evaluated by a receiving institution on an individual basis.”
⚠⚠ Read that as what it is: the state telling you the guarantee is weaker here than it looks. It appears on eleven CHM numbers, every one of them the later half of a sequence, so it is a deliberate SCNS convention rather than a note about this course in particular.
The practical rule is short: finish the sequence where you started it. Where that is genuinely impossible — a mid-year transfer, a move — take the syllabus and the topic list to the receiving department before registering and get the equivalence in writing. The reason the state hedges is real: the order of topics varies, so half a sequence at one school is not necessarily the same half at another, and the gap does not show up until the second course assumes something you were never taught.
The state says the order of topics may vary from school to school, and on organic chemistry that is not a formality. Institutions genuinely differ on where they place alcohols and ethers, radical reactions, NMR, and the Diels-Alder reaction — some in the first term, some in the second.
⚠⚠ So a student who takes Organic I at one college and Organic II at another can arrive in a course that assumes NMR they were never taught, while having already covered carbonyl material the new institution is about to repeat. The credit will usually transfer; the preparation is what does not. If you must split the sequence, get the second institution’s first-term topic list and compare it with what you actually covered — not the course titles, which are identical and tell you nothing.
| Form | Credits | Institutions |
|---|---|---|
CHM2211 lecture + separate CHM2211L laboratory | 3 + 1 | 29 |
CHM2211C integrated lecture and laboratory | 4 (Polk State 5) | 7 |
⚠ Same as Organic I, and it matters for the same reason: an evaluator matching identifiers reads CHM2211C against a CHM2211 requirement as a mismatch when it is the same course. Say so and send the syllabus.
Twenty-seven institutions carry it at 3 credits; Florida SouthWestern State College and Hillsborough Community College carry it at 4. ⚠ FIU carries Organic I at 4 credits and this course at 3, so a student completing the year at FIU has 7 lecture credits where a student elsewhere has 6 — check how your degree audit counts it.
Twenty-three institutions call it Organic Chemistry II, five use the Arabic Organic Chemistry 2, and several run Honors sections under the same number. ⚠ Tallahassee State College’s catalogue records the title as “Organic Chemisty II” — a typing error in the state record, not a different course. Register by the number.
SCNS records what a dual-enrolled high-school student earns, and it is not the same across the sequence:
General Chemistry I (CHM2045 / CHM1045) | ⚠ ELECTIVE |
General Chemistry II (CHM2046 / CHM1046) | SCIENCE |
| Organic Chemistry I and II | SCIENCE |
⚠ The college credit is unaffected either way. What differs is the high-school requirement it fills — so a student taking general chemistry I expecting to clear a high-school science requirement may receive elective credit instead. This is not a quirk of the prefix: across the 41 active lower-division CHM numbers the field splits 22 elective to 19 science, so it genuinely discriminates and is worth checking rather than assuming. Confirm with your counsellor and your district’s articulation agreement before you enrol, not after.
A designation is recorded for this course at some Florida institutions and not others, and the flags in the state file reliably say that a designation exists without reliably saying which. Read your own institution’s general-education list. And where a Gordon Rule designation does apply, remember the condition that catches people: a grade of C or higher is required for it to count, and a C− does not satisfy it at most institutions — stricter than the ordinary passing standard.
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