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Invitation to Organic Chemistry
A. William Johnson, University of North Dakota, North Dakota
ISBN-13: 9780763704322
ISBN-10: 0763704326
$154.95 (Sugg. US List)
Paperback
672 Pages
© 1999
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- An Essential Understanding Approach. Limiting content to present only what is essential for understanding the elementary workings of organic chemistry encourages a thorough understanding of a smaller body of knowledge as opposed to memorization of a larger body of knowledge.
- A Logical Organization. The chapter sequence is the result of careful consideration of how students most effectively learn this subject. In the author's experience, students find it easiest to study organic chemistry through developing familiarity with functional groups. The text, therefore, focuses only on carbocation chemistry in the first eight chapters. By the time radical chemistry is introduced, students have become familiar with mechanisms, including issues of reactivity and stabilization.
- Bioorganic Integration. Essential coverage of the standard biological chemicals has been incorporated in those chapters that include the actual functional groups involved. This approach has the advantage of presenting interesting topics relatively early, mixed in with the regular functional-group chemistry.
- Heavy problem-solving emphasis. Recognizing the challenges instructors face preparing students to analyze and solve problems in organic chemistry, the author has developed a comprehensive problem-solving pedagogy that goes above and beyond that which can be found in any other textbook.
- Key to Transformations serves as a road map to students and helps them understand the relationships between families of organic compunds.
- How to Solve a Problem are strategy sessions that walk students through the process of analyzing and solving problems typical of those found in the chapter. It appears as though the author is thinking out loud as the problem is tackled.
- Problems within the chapter generally involve single steps in applying the reaction being discussed.
- Additional Problems found at the end of the chapter are subdivided into sections that test specific concepts from the chapter, as well as Mixed Problems of varying degrees of complexity.
- Conceptual Problems offers students an opportunity to see how organic chemistry might be used in a real-world setting. (Solutions to all the problems are included in the Study Guide and Solutions Manual that accompanies the text.)
- Chemistry at Work. Interspersed throughout the text, these 53 vignettes place chemistry in several contexts to help students connect chemistry with the real world.
- Organic Online (http://www.jbpub.com/organic-online) is a powerful Web site that forms part of the textbook's comprehensive learning program. Here students will find links that allow them to view molecules in three dimensions, animations of key reactions, online quizzes, links to other Web sites that relate to chapter material, and a career resource center.
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