num_pages: 1536
description: This new and innovative text helps students develop a deeper understanding of organic chemistry. It treats the subject as a coherent whole complete with numerous logical connections consequences and an underlying structure and language. Employing an approach based on mechanism and reaction type the book empasizes understanding ideas rather than merely memorizing facts. It shows students how to realistically draw molecules and mechanisms to reveal the fundamental chemistry.Using a fresh accessible writing style as well as examples from everyday life the authors explain the basics of organic chemistry carefully and thoroughly. A special focus on mechanism orbitals and stereochemistry helps students gain a solid comprehension of important factors common to all reactions. The book's innovative design enhances clarity and instruction with boxes that separate summary information and other material from the main text; a variety of colors that draw attention to items such as atoms molecules and orbitals; and figures that are drawn in red with significant parts emphasized in black. Early chapters feature carbonyl group reactions and later chapters systematically develop the chemistry through discussions of spectroscopy stereochemistry and chemical reactions.Each chapter opens with a Connections box divided into three  Building Details material from previous chapters that relate to the current chapter Arriving Provides a guide to the content of the chapter Looking forward Previews later chapters which develop and expand the current material
language: English
title: Organic Chemistry
publisher: Oxford University Press