Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry 2nd Edition

Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry 2nd Edition book cover

Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry 2nd Edition

Author(s): Audrey Miller (Author), Philippa H. Solomon (Contributor)

  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • Publication Date: 4 Nov. 1999
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 488 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0124967124
  • ISBN-13: 9780124967120

Book Description

Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, Second Edition, is an invaluable guide to charting the movements of atoms and electrons in the reactions of organic molecules. Miller and Solomon illustrate that understanding organic reactions is based on applying general principles rather than the rote memorization of unrelated processes, and, in turn, emphasize that writing mechanisms is a practical method of applying knowledge of previously encountered reactions and reaction conditions to new reactions. Students and research chemists alike will find this book useful in providing a method of organizing and synthesizing an oftentimes overwhelming quantity of information into a set of general principles and guidelines for determining and describing organic reaction mechanisms.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This is an excellent text that should be a requirement for all students entering the organic chemistry profession. Improvements will simply make a good thing even better….The level of difficulty is appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduates….The overall organization is superb….The ‘hints’ were amazingly on target for answering some of the questions that repeatedly come up with students.” -Betty Luceigh, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

“An important contribution to the chemical education field and a great seller for AP.” -Jay Siegel, Professor, Department of Chemistry, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

“Miller stresses a detailed pedagogically focused approach developing mechanistic pathways from fundamental chemical, physical, and electronic/molecular orbital principles….Many examples and problems are included, along with numerous literature references. Written in a clear and comprehensible style, it will serve as an invaluable supplement to both undergraduate and graduate chemistry students alike; the thorough index renders it useful for professionals as well.” -Francis Vincent Scalzi, Professor, Department of Chemistry, HIRAM COLLEGE, in CHOICE

“I think this book is quite unique and very much needed….The problems are truly outstanding….I like the idea and scope of this book very much….I am excited about using this text.” -Sheila E. Browne, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

“Suitable as a text for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students in chemistry, assuming the knowledge obtained in a one-year undergraduate course. Detailed answers are given to all problems.” -BOOK NEWS, INC., reprinted on amazon.com.

“Overall the quality of the presentation is very good. The mechanistic concepts are explained well, the examples chosen are quite representative, and the problems are excellent.” -Donald J. Burton, Professor, Department of Chemistry, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

From the Back Cover

Praise for the First Edition:
“Written in a clear and comprehensible style,
Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Orgainic Chemistry will serve as an invaluable supplement to both undergraduate and graduate chemistry students alike; the thorough index renders it useful for professionals as well.”
–Choice
Practicing chemists increasingly use mechanisms to explain their results and to design new experiments and processes.
Writing Reaction Mechanisms is a guide to charting the movements of electrons and atoms during the reactions of organic molecules. The book helps train the reader to write organic reaction mechanisms-that is, to construct a detailed, step-by-step account of the changes that occur as reactants become transformed into products. It offers the student another framework for organizing the material covered in organic chemistry, which is frequently seen by students as an overwhelming quantity of information. This book helps students understand functional group transformations and synthetic methods by organizing them into a set of general principles and guidelines for determining writing mechanisms.
Key Features:
* Essential for those students who need to have mechanisms explained in greater detail than most organic chemistry textbooks provide.
* Illustrated with hundreds of chemical structures
* Extensively rewritten and reorganized to make the presentation and format even easier for students to use
* Contains many problem sets and answers to all problems to help students work through general principles and applications
* Appendixes have been added to this edition that contain easily referenced information on Lewis structures, symbols for chemical notation, and the relative acidities of common substances

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