Essential organic chemistry

Bruice, Paula Yurkanis 1941- (author.).

Summary: A comprehensive, problem-solving approach for the brief Organic Chemistry course. Modern and thorough revisions to the streamlined, Essential Organic Chemistry focus on developing students' problem solving and analytical reasoning skills throughout organic chemistry. Organized around reaction similarities and rich with contemporary biochemical connections, Bruice's Third Edition discourages memorization and encourages students to be mindful of the fundamental reasoning behind organic reactivity: electrophiles react with nucleophiles.

Record details

ISBN: 9780321937711 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 644 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Remembering general chemistry -- Acids and bases -- An introduction to organic compounds -- Isomers -- Alkenes -- An exercise in drawing curved arrows -- The reactions of alkenes and alkynes -- Delocalized electrons and their effects on stability, pka, and the products of a reaction-aromaticity and the reactions of benzene -- Substitution and elimination reactions of alkyl halides -- Reactions of alcohols, ethers, epoxides, amines, and thiols -- Determining the structure of organic compounds -- Reactions of carboxylic acids and carboxylic acid derivatives -- Reactions to aldehydes and ketones-more reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives -- Reactions at the a-carbon of carbonyl compounds -- Radicals -- Synthetic polymers -- The organic chemistry of amino acids, peptides, and proteins -- How enzymes catalyze reactions-the organic chemistry of the metabolic pathways -- The organic chemistry of lipids -- The chemistry of the nucleic acids -- Physical properties of organic compounds -- Spectroscopy tables.