Organic Chemistry Fourth Edition

About this book

This innovative book from acclaimed educator Paula Bruice is organized in a way that discourages rote memorization. The authors writing has been praised for anticipating readers questions and appeals to their need to learn visually and by solving problems. Emphasizing that learners should reason their way to solutions rather than memorize facts Bruice encourages them to think about what they have learned previously and apply that knowledge in a new setting. KEY TOPICS The book balances coverage of traditional topics with bioorganic chemistry highlights mechanistic similarities and ties synthesis and reactivity togetherteaching the reactivity of a functional group and the synthesis of compounds obtained as a result of that reactivity. For the study of organic chemistry.