Organic Chemistry Study Guide
Key Concepts, Problems, and Solutions
- 1st Edition - October 13, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Robert J. Ouellette, J. David Rawn
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 8 8 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 8 6 4 - 4
Organic Chemistry Study Guide: Key Concepts, Problems, and Solutions features hundreds of problems from the companion book, Organic Chemistry, and includes solutions for every pro… Read more
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Request a sales quoteOrganic 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
Chemists, life scientists, food scientists, pharmacists, students in the physical and life sciences
- 1: Structure and Bonding in Organic Compounds
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to End-Of-Chapter Exercises
- 2: Part I: Functional Groups and Their Properties
- Keys to Part I of the Chapter
- Part II: Identification of Functional Groups by Infrared Spectroscopy
- Keys to Part II of the Chapter
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 3: Introduction to Organic Reaction Mechanisms
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 4: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes Structures and Reactions
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 5: Alkenes Structures and Properties
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 6: Alkenes Addition Reactions
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 7: Alkynes
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 8: Stereochemistry
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to In-Chapter Problems
- 9: Haloalkanes and Alcohols Introduction to Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Summary of Reactions
- Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 10: Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 11: Conjugated Alkenes and Allylic Systems
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 12: Arenes and Aromaticity
- Keys to the Chapter
- Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds
- 13: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 14: Methods for Structure Determination Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry
- Keys to the Chapter
- Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 15: Alcohols: Reactions and Synthesis
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to End-of-Chapter Exercises
- 16: Ethers and Epoxides
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Exercises
- 17: Organometallic Chemistry of Transition Metal Elements and Introduction to Retrosynthesis
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Answers to Exercises
- 18: Aldehydes and Ketones
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 19: Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition Reactions
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Exercises
- 20: Carboxylic Acids
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 21: Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions Exercises
- 22: Condensation Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 23: Amines and Amides
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 24: Aryl Halides, Phenols, and Anilines
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Answers to Exercises
- 25: Pericyclic Reactions
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to Exercises
- 26: Carbohydrates
- Keys to the Chapter
- Summary of Reactions
- Solutions to Exercises
- 27: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to Exercises
- 28: Synthetic Polymers
- Keys to the Chapter
- Solutions to Exercises
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 13, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 614
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128018897
- eBook ISBN: 9780128018644
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Robert J. Ouellette
Robert J. Ouellette, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USAJR
J. David Rawn
J. David Rawn, Department of Chemistry, Towson University
Affiliations and expertise
Towson University, Baltimore, MD, USARead Organic Chemistry Study Guide on ScienceDirect