Synopses & Reviews
This text is aimed at students entering first year university courses. The book is not meant to replace lecture material or conventional textbooks, but rather to enhance the course by challenging the student to test his or her knowledge. Indeed, the introduction emphasizes that students should read their lecture notes and textbook before tackling the self-learning text.
The self-learning text concentrates on reactions and mechanisms with emphasis on rationalizing reactions rather than memorizing them. The text assumes knowledge covered in Patrick's Beginning Organic Chemistry.
In each section of the book, the student is led through the subject matter by being given a short piece of theory, followed by a question. A space is then provided for the student's answer and then the full model answer is given. The next bit of theory follows and so on. In this way, students are encouraged to think about what they are reading at all times, rather than getting information 'gift wrapped'. Each section finishes with a summary of the most important facts.
Review
"Graham Patrick has written two workbooks whose purpose is to help beginning students master the fundamental concepts, principles, and reactions of organic chemistry through self-study and problem solving. . . .The writing is casual, almost conversational, and expressed in ways that young people will find appealing. . . .the author has fulfilled his purpose. . .Any beginning student will profit from their use."--Journal of Chemical Education
Synopsis
This text is aimed at students entering first year university courses. The book is not meant to replace lecture material or conventional textbooks, but rather to enhance the course by challenging the student to test his or her knowledge. Indeed, the introduction emphasizes that students should read their lecture notes and textbook before tackling the self-learning text.
The self-learning text concentrates on reactions and mechanisms with emphasis on rationalizing reactions rather than memorizing them. The text assumes knowledge covered in Patrick's Beginning Organic Chemistry.
In each section of the book, the student is led through the subject matter by being given a short piece of theory, followed by a question. A space is then provided for the student's answer and then the full model answer is given. The next bit of theory follows and so on. In this way, students are encouraged to think about what they are reading at all times, rather than getting information 'gift wrapped'. Each section finishes with a summary of the most important facts.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Nucleophiles and Electrophiles
2. Reactions and Mechanisms
3. Classification of Reactions
4. Acid/Base Reactions
5. Electrophile Addition
6. Electrophilic Substitutions - 1
7. Electrophilic Substitutions - 2
8. Nucleophilic Additions Containing Functional Groups
9. Nucleophilic Substitutions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
10. Nucleophilic Substitutions of Alkyl Halides
11. Reactions involving Acidic Proteins attached to Carbon - Aldehydes and Ketones
12. Reactions involving Acidic Proteins attached to Carbon - Elimination reactions of Alkyl Halides and Alcohols
13. Reduction and Oxidations
14. Radical Reactions