Organic Chemistry

PRESENTATION OF MECHANISMS: Mechanisms are presented in a clear, stepwise fashion with written commentary accompanying each mechanistic step so verbal learners can learn alongside more visually oriented learners. Many mechanisms are broken into multiple steps to increase student understanding. In addition, the authors emphasize similarities between related mechanisms using just four different characteristics: breaking a bond, making a new bond, adding a proton, and taking a proton away. “Things You Should Know III, Reaction Mechanisms,” sets this explanation apart for easy reference.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY REACTION ROADMAPS: Creating a cumulative, graphical representation of the different reactions students encounter in the context of important functional groups, organic chemistry roadmap inserts help students visualize how to interconvert different functional groups (which often require different reactions from different chapters) by simply identifying the most direct path on the roadmap. Unique end-of-chapter problems relate to the authors' organic chemistry roadmap.

IN-CHAPTER WORKED EXAMPLES: Featuring a pedagogy normally reserved for general chemistry texts, the book offers worked examples followed by corresponding problems without answers and a multitude of end-of-chapter problems, including challenging, research-based essay problems, multi-step synthesis problems, reactions in context problems, and roadmap problems.

"HOW-TO" BOXES: To facilitate student success in the course, insightful "How-To" boxes highlight the survival skills necessary to learn and master organic chemistry. Integrated throughout the text at key points, these essential skills include "How To: Draw Curved Arrows and Push Electrons," "How To: Draw Chiral Molecules," "How To: Solve NMR Spectral Problems," and many more.