Organic Chemistry

Organic Chemistry
ISBN-10
0131217305
ISBN-13
9780131217300
Series
Organic Chemistry
Category
Chemistry, Organic
Pages
1228
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Author
Paula Yurkanis Bruice

Description

This innovative book from acclaimed educator Paula Bruice is organized in a way that discourages rote memorization. The author's writing has been praised for anticipating readers' questions, and appeals to their need to learn visually and by solving problems. Emphasizing that learners should reason their way to solutions rather than memorize facts, Bruice encourages them to think about what they have learned previously and apply that knowledge in a new setting. KEY TOPICS The book balances coverage of traditional topics with bioorganic chemistry, highlights mechanistic similarities, and ties synthesis and reactivity togetherteaching the reactivity of a functional group and the synthesis of compounds obtained as a result of that reactivity. For the study of organic chemistry.

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