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Summary
Summary
Make the leap from introductory to organic chemistry
The transition from first-year chemistry to an organic chemistry course can be a challenge for many students. Not only must they recall their first-year studies of bonding, structure, and reactivity, but they must also master a whole new set of nomenclature, along with the critical skill of "electron-pushing." Reviewing the fundamentals and carefully introducing the important new concepts, The Bridge to Organic Chemistry: Concepts and Nomenclature helps students smoothly bridge the gap to organic chemistry.
Concise and carefully structured, The Bridge to Organic Chemistry helps students strengthen their mastery of fundamental concepts from an introductory chemistry course and then introduces them to the new concepts of organic chemistry. Step by step, the reader will:
Review important concepts such as structural isomerism, Lewis formulas, hybridization, and resonance and understand their roles in modern organic chemistry Learn organic nomenclature along with the critical skill of "electron-pushing" Explore mechanisms that utilize many of the concepts: Lewis acid-base chemistry, rate laws, enthalpy changes, bond energies and electronegativities, substituent effects, structure, stereochemistry, and the visualization of electron flow through the electron-pushing modelWith a clear progressive style and substantial review at each step, The Bridge to Organic Chemistry puts organic chemistry and its nomenclature within the grasp of every student.
Author Notes
CLAUDE H. YODER has been teaching general chemistry for over forty years. During that time, he has published over 130 scientific articles and three texts. He has also won many awards and honors throughout his career, including the ACS Undergraduate Research Award in 1994, and his most recent, the E. Emmett Reid ACS Award in 2008.
PHYLLIS A. LEBER is currently a professor at Franklin & Marshall College. Dr. Leber has been teaching general and organic chemistry for over thirty years. During that time, she has won many awards and honors, and more recently, the Dr. E. Paul and Frances H. Reiff Professor Endowed Chair in 2001 and the Bradley R. Dewey Scholarship Award from Franklin & Marshall College in 2005. Dr. Leber has published over forty articles throughout her career.
MARCUS W. THOMSEN is currently a professor at Franklin & Marshall College and has been teaching for over twenty-five years. He has taught general chemistry, organic chemistry, advanced organic chemistry, and polymer chemistry.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
Organic chemistry is a topic that challenges students for many reasons, not the least of which is a difficulty in recalling or applying to new systems the foundational topics taught in introductory chemistry. Yoder, Leber, and Thomsen (all, Franklin & Marshall College) have constructed a short, simple book aimed at making this crucial connection. Through a series of questions followed by detailed solutions, they present a collection of first-year chemistry concepts, such as percent composition, bonding, isomers, kinetics, and thermodynamics, in a manner meant to guide students into realizing how they can be applied to organic molecules and reactions. While aimed at students between the first and second year, the book's best use--particularly because of its unique question-and-answer format--may be as a supplement in an organic chemistry course. Intellectually less than a textbook, but more than a review book (e.g., Schaum's Outline of Organic Chemistry, by H. Meislich et al., 4th ed., 2009) or study guide (e.g., A. Winter's Organic Chemistry I for Dummies, 2005), this title occupies a unique, useful place in chemistry education collections. Though it could benefit from more engaging (and colored) graphics, it nevertheless will deepen and contextualize the understanding of organic chemistry for motivated undergraduates. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower and upper-division undergraduates. E. J. Chang York College
Table of Contents
| Composition |
| Bonding |
| Organic Nomenclature |
| Isomerism |
| Chemical Reactivity |
| Reaction Mechanisms |
