Organic Chemistry Study Guide: Key Concepts, Problems, and Solutions

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Ouellette, J. David Rawn

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 598
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Organic Chemistry Study Guide: Key Concepts, Problems, and Solutions features hundreds of problems from the companion book, Organic Chemistry,and includes solutions for every problem. Key concept summaries reinforce critical material from the primary book and enhance mastery of this complex subject.

Organic chemistry is a constantly evolving field that has great relevance for all scientists, not just chemists. For chemical engineers, understanding the properties of organic molecules and how reactions occur is critically important to understanding the processes in an industrial plant. For biologists and health professionals, it is essential because nearly all of biochemistry springs from organic chemistry. Additionally, all scientists can benefit from improved critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are developed from the study of organic chemistry.

Organic chemistry, like any "skill", is best learned by doing. It is difficult to learn by rote memorization, and true understanding comes only from concentrated reading, and working as many problems as possible. In fact, problem sets are the best way to ensure that concepts are not only well understood, but can also be applied to real-world problems in the work place.

• Helps readers learn to categorize, analyze, and solve organic chemistry problems at all levels of difficulty
• Hundreds of fully-worked practice problems, all with solutions
• Key concept summaries for every chapter reinforces core content from the companion book

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i,iii
Copyright, Page iv
1 - Structure and Bonding in Organic Compounds, Pages 1-16
2 - Part I: Functional Groups and Their Properties, Pages 17-29
3 - Introduction to Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Pages 31-46
4 - Alkanes and Cycloalkanes Structures and Reactions, Pages 47-67
5 - Alkenes Structures and Properties, Pages 69-84
6 - Alkenes Addition Reactions, Pages 85-104
7 - Alkynes, Pages 105-116
8 - Stereochemistry, Pages 117-133
9 - Haloalkanes and Alcohols Introduction to Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions, Pages 135-167
10 - Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions, Pages 169-182
11 - Conjugated Alkenes and Allylic Systems, Pages 183-201
12 - Arenes and Aromaticity, Pages 203-210
13 - Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution, Pages 211-228
14 - Methods for Structure Determination Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry, Pages 229-242
15 - Alcohols: Reactions and Synthesis, Pages 243-276
16 - Ethers and Epoxides, Pages 277-297
17 - Organometallic Chemistry of Transition Metal Elements and Introduction to Retrosynthesis, Pages 299-311
18 - Aldehydes and Ketones, Pages 313-333
19 - Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition Reactions, Pages 335-360
20 - Carboxylic Acids, Pages 361-384
21 - Carboxylic Acid Derivatives, Pages 385-418
22 - Condensation Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds, Pages 419-463
23 - Amines and Amides, Pages 465-494
24 - Aryl Halides, Phenols, and Anilines, Pages 495-519
25 - Pericyclic Reactions, Pages 521-537
26 - Carbohydrates, Pages 539-567
27 - Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins, Pages 569-586
28 - Synthetic Polymers, Pages 587-601
Index, Pages 603-608