Key Features
- Extensively rewritten and reorganized with a completely new chapter
on oxidation and reduction reactions including stereochemical reactions
- Essential for those who need to have mechanisms explained in greater detail than most organic chemistry textbooks provide
- Now illustrated with hundreds of colorful chemical structures to help you understand reaction processes more easily
- New and extended problem sets and answers to help you understand the
general principles and how to apply this to real applications
- New information boxes throughout the text to provide useful
background to reactions and the people behind the discovery of a
reaction
Description
Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, Third Edition is
an invaluable guide to understanding the movements of atoms and
electrons in the reactions of organic molecules. Expanding on the
successful book by Miller and Solomon, this new edition further enhances
your understanding of reactions. The whole book has been extensively
revised with new material including a completely new chapter. To further
aid understanding, all illustrations have been redrawn with the use of
color to clearly indicate how each reaction works. This book illustrates
that understanding organic reactions is based on applying general
principles rather than memorizing unrelated processes. This approach
helps you understand that writing mechanisms is a practical method of
applying knowledge of previously encountered reactions and reaction
conditions to new reactions. After simply explaining basic principles,
this book then examines each type of reaction. A clear background and
explanation is provided for each reaction, followed by an example of the
reaction in use. At the end of each section is a series of problems,
with a wider range of challenging questions, to test your understanding
of the mechanism, with answers to check that you are right. Students and
research chemists alike will find this revised book useful to organize
what may seem an overwhelming quantity of information into a set of
simple general principles and guidelines for determining and describing
organic reaction mechanisms.
Readership
Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in organic
chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, advanced organic chemistry, and
organic chemistry reactions
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