Professor Zhang has a very rigorous manner towards research. He is very caring and wants everyone to succeed. Those who try get an easy A without hard work does not deserve to be in his class. As fas as I know, he also gives final exam that is very similar to HW.

He also taught chem 132 in organometallics sometimes. It was a very useful class and you have to expect to learn a lot of complicated theories. The exams were derivatives of the homework and lectures. Overall it was not hard if you have a strong background in organic chemistry.

Lectures based directly on notes taken from Bruice, doesn't go in much detail. Mandatory lecture only on F (M,W free). No midterm, but quiz for each chapter given each week. Really long and tedious final though (68 MC, 21 FRQ). Def use the Ochem book and answer book (especially during the final)!! The problems from Mastering are all taken from it!

This class was one of the hardest classes yet especially with it being remote. The structure and way this class was taught was god awful and created lot of stress and confusion. He expected students to self teach a whole chapter before lecture while also completing homework from the previous chapter. Lots of miscommunication and self teaching.

I just started taking him for 109C this quarter, but I 100% do not recommend him. He is definitely the worst ochem professor I have had - his lectures are ridiculously unhelpful and he gives unreasonable amounts of mastering chemistry homework. You'll end up studying on your own entirely. If you can, stay away from his class!

liming is a nice guy. He tried to help us learn better by holding weekly review session and lots of office hours. However, his lecturing is not very clear and you need to depend on the textbook and notes he posted to learn the material again by yourself. His exam is okay and he will cover some of them in the review session.

Liming is a nice guy and extremely knowledgeable. You can tell he tries to be a good teacher, but unfortunately fails miserably. Took an honors section so a lot was expected from us but wow... I have never had to work that hard for a class before. Did every practice prob over three times and still really struggled on exams. Thank god for the curve

Zhang is a nice guy, he held weekly review session and extended office hours. He wanted to change you to understand the material. His tests were not that hard if you really studied super hard. He curved at the end. But he was not a better lecturer, you gotta study a lot after lectures.

Zhang is the worst. Don't take his class!!!! I spent a lot of time and effort on this class, but still can't cover everything, bc he only teach a little during lectures. His English is not quite good, sometimes he cannot explain very well and you have to ask a lot of things. He sometimes mixed up words like "most" and "least" which is very confusi

Hardest class I've taken at UCSB. I went to almost every office hours and review session yet still did horrible on both midterms. He doesn't explain the material in a way that people taking ochem for the first time could understand. We were tested on material from the book, not just lecture.

Terrible lecturer

Worst Teacher In The Entire School