Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (14 September 2015) © 2016

  • Paula Yurkanis Bruice University of California, Santa Barbara
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For one-term courses in Organic Chemistry

A comprehensive, problem-solving approach for the brief Organic Chemistry course.
Modern and thorough revisions to the streamlined, Essential Organic Chemistry focus on developing students’ problem solving and analytical reasoning skills throughout organic chemistry. Organised around reaction similarities and rich with contemporary biochemical connections, Bruice’s 3rd Edition discourages memorisation and encourages students to be mindful of the fundamental reasoning behind organic reactivity: electrophiles react with nucleophiles.

Developed to support a diverse student audience studying organic chemistry for the first and only time, Essentials fosters an understanding of the principles of organic structure and reaction mechanisms, encourages skill development through new Tutorial Spreads and emphasises bioorganic processes. Contemporary and rigorous, Essentials addresses the skills needed for the 2015 MCAT and serves both pre-med and biology majors.

Table of contents

  1. 1. Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding
  2. 2. Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry
  3. 3. An Introduction to Organic Compounds
  4. 4. Isomers: The Arrangement of Atomsin Space
  5. 5. Alkenes
  6. 6. The Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes
  7. 7. Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction • Aromaticity and the Reactions of Benzene
  8. 8. Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
  9. 9. Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Thiols
  10. 10. Determining the Structure of Organic Compounds
  11. 11. Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
  12. 12. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones • More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
  13. 13. Reactions at the a-Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds
  14. 14. Radicals
  15. 15. Synthetic Polymers
  16. 16. The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
  17. 17. The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
  18. 18. How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions • The Organic Chemistry of the Vitamins 1 (Online-only chapter)
  19. 19. The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways
  20. 20. The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
  21. 21. The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids

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