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With a focus on organic chemistry students at all levels, problems are incorporated into the body of the text in an effort to engage students more directly in chemistry.
List of contents
Chapter 01 Introduction
Chapter 02 Electrons, bonding, and structure
Chapter 03 Alkanes, cycloalkanes, and nomenclature fundamentals
Chapter 04 Arrow pushing and solvent
Chapter 05 Radical reactions
Chapter 06 Stereochemistry
Chapter 07 Infrared spectroscopy
Chapter 08 Mass spectrometry
Chapter 09 Nuclear magnetic resonance
Chapter 10 Acids and bases
Chapter 11 Alkene structure and nomenclature
Chapter 12 Electrophilic addition to alkenes
Chapter 13 Reactions of alkynes
Chapter 14 Nucleophilic substitution and B-elimination reactions
Chapter 15 Alcohols
Chapter 16 Ethers and epoxides
Chapter 17 Organometallic chemistry: magnesium, lithium, copper, and carbenes
Chapter 18 Organometallic chemistry: palladium
Chapter 19 Aldehydes and ketones
Chapter 20 Carboxylic acids
Chapter 21 Carboxylic acid derivatives
Chapter 22 Enols, enolates, and enamines
Chapter 23 Amines
Chapter 24 Conjugated diene chemistry
Chapter 25 Aromaticity
Chapter 26 Aromatic substitution
Common organic functional groups and nomenclature
Index
About the author
Dr William Tucker – his passion for chemistry was inspired by his high school teacher, Gary Osborn. He left Maine to pursue Chemistry at Middlebury College, and after graduating in 2010 he decided to pursue a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked in the laboratory of Dr Sandro Mecozzi, where he developed semifluorinated triphilic surfactants for hydrophobic drug delivery. After earning his PhD in 2015, he took a fellowship at Boston University as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow. There he co-taught organic chemistry while working in the laboratory of Dr John Caradonna. In the Caradonna laboratory, he worked on developing a surface-immobilized iron-oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of C–H bonds using dioxygen from the air as the terminal oxidant. Throughout all of this work, his passion has always been for teaching and working with students both in and out of the classroom. He has been lucky for the past six years to work at Concord Academy, where his students have, through their questions, pushed him to think deeper and more critically about chemistry. Their curiosity inspires him, and their inquisitiveness inspired his writing.
Summary
With a focus on organic chemistry students at all levels, problems are incorporated into the body of the text in an effort to engage students more directly in chemistry.
