Organic Chemistry, Fourth Edition

by: Paula Yurkanis Bruice (Author)

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Edition: 4th Edition

Publication Date: 2003/1/1

Language: English

Print Length: 1344 pages

ISBN-10: 0131407481

ISBN-13: 9780131407480

Book 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 lea visually and by solving problems. Emphasizing that leaers should reason their way to solutions rather than memorize facts, Bruice encourages them to think about what they have leaed 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 together—teaching the reactivity of a functional group and the synthesis of compounds obtained as a result of that reactivity. For the study of organic chemistry.

About the Author

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 lea visually and by solving problems. Emphasizing that leaers should reason their way to solutions rather than memorize facts, Bruice encourages them to think about what they have leaed 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 together—teaching the reactivity of a functional group and the synthesis of compounds obtained as a result of that reactivity. For the study of organic chemistry.