Understand Organic Chemistryby Focusing on Concepts and Analysis Skills is a unique textbook that flips the old, ineffective script.
Instead of presenting endless reactions that students try to memorize, this textbook focuses on what matters: equipping students to think critically and apply core principles to solve any carbon-based reaction.
All of the reactions found in other organic chemistry textbooks are covered. However, in Understand Organic Chemistry, reactions are presented not as isolated facts, but rather as tools for building insight, deep understanding, and real-world application skills.
Grounded in cutting-edge effective pedagogy, Understand Organic Chemistry incorporates massed and varied practice, generative learning, and spaced retrieval practice to help students retain, integrate, and use what they learn.
This textbook provides the tools to Understand Organic Chemistry.
Understand Organic Chemistry Part 1 Focuses on concepts and application skills related to Nomenclature, Stereochemistry, Principles of Reactions, Identifying Reactive Features, Representing Reaction Mechanisms, and Strategies for Stabilizing a Carbocation - including Resonance.
Reactions used for analysis practice include electrophilic addition, halogenation, hydration, H2O2 with HBr, halohydration, alkoxymercuration/oxymercuration, hydroboration-oxidation, and 1,2-1,4 addition reactions.
Understand Organic Chemistry Part 2 Focuses on concepts and application skills related to Carbanions, Aromatic Compounds, Carbonyl Nomenclature, Leaving Groups, Solvent Effects, Principles of Redox Reactions, Mass Spectrometry, IR, and NMR.
Reactions used for analysis practice include keto-enol tautomerization, Diels Alder, Alky Hydroboration-Oxidation, Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution, Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution, Nucleophilic Addition, Conjuguate vs. Direct Addition, Schiff Base, Hemi-Acetal/Acetal/Hemi-Ketal/Ketal, Aldol, Claisen, Wittig, SN1/SN2/E1/E2, Alcohols with HX, H2SO4, H3PO4, TsCl, PX3, SOCl2, Hoffman Elimination, Cope Elimination, SNAr, Lindlar’s Raney Ni, Wolff-Kishner, and oxidizing agents such as Na2Cr2O7, H2CrO4, PCC, KMnO4, HIO4, OsO4, and O3.
Understand Organic Chemistryby Focusing on Concepts and Analysis Skills is a unique textbook that flips the old, ineffective script.
Instead of presenting endless reactions that students try to memorize, this textbook focuses on what matters: equipping students to think critically and apply core principles to solve any carbon-based reaction.
All of the reactions found in other organic chemistry textbooks are covered. However, in Understand Organic Chemistry, reactions are presented not as isolated facts, but rather as tools for building insight, deep understanding, and real-world application skills.
Grounded in cutting-edge effective pedagogy, Understand Organic Chemistry incorporates massed and varied practice, generative learning, and spaced retrieval practice to help students retain, integrate, and use what they learn.
This textbook provides the tools to Understand Organic Chemistry.
Understand Organic Chemistry Part 1 Focuses on concepts and application skills related to Nomenclature, Stereochemistry, Principles of Reactions, Identifying Reactive Features, Representing Reaction Mechanisms, and Strategies for Stabilizing a Carbocation - including Resonance.
Reactions used for analysis practice include electrophilic addition, halogenation, hydration, H2O2 with HBr, halohydration, alkoxymercuration/oxymercuration, hydroboration-oxidation, and 1,2-1,4 addition reactions.
Understand Organic Chemistry Part 2 Focuses on concepts and application skills related to Carbanions, Aromatic Compounds, Carbonyl Nomenclature, Leaving Groups, Solvent Effects, Principles of Redox Reactions, Mass Spectrometry, IR, and NMR.
Reactions used for analysis practice include keto-enol tautomerization, Diels Alder, Alky Hydroboration-Oxidation, Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution, Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution, Nucleophilic Addition, Conjuguate vs. Direct Addition, Schiff Base, Hemi-Acetal/Acetal/Hemi-Ketal/Ketal, Aldol, Claisen, Wittig, SN1/SN2/E1/E2, Alcohols with HX, H2SO4, H3PO4, TsCl, PX3, SOCl2, Hoffman Elimination, Cope Elimination, SNAr, Lindlar’s Raney Ni, Wolff-Kishner, and oxidizing agents such as Na2Cr2O7, H2CrO4, PCC, KMnO4, HIO4, OsO4, and O3.
