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Organic Chemistry

Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves, Stuart Warren, and Peter Wothers

Price: £38.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-850346-0
Publication date: 20 July 2000
1536 pages, 6800 illus., 276x219 mm

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'What strikes the reader straight away is the way the text is laid out so that it is visually exciting. ...I could go on, so let me end by congratulating the authors and publishers in producing what I am sure will become the standard text in organic chemistry. Perhaps I should just summarise how I felt about the book when I came to put it down: refreshing, exciting and motivational. Tony Barrett, Imperial College London' -
'"The authors should be congratulated for compiling a book that should prove very popular with our students...the text is very comprehensive and covers key areas in a very attractive and user friendly way. Thank you to OUP for publishing the book at a really good price". Dr Don Green, University of North London.' -

Description

Carefully developed, extensively market reviewed core textbook for undergraduate organic chemistry courses
Emphasis is on understanding rather than learning facts
Emphasis on mechanism, orbitals, and stereochemistry means that the student emerges with solid understanding of important factors common to all reactions, allowing interpretation/prediction of reactions not previously met
Organic chemistry emerges as a coherent whole, with numerous logical connections and consequences, and with an underlying structure and language
The teaching of organic chemistry continues to move away from starting with the traditional and increasingly old-fashioned 'alkanes, alkenes, alkynes' to carbonyl chemistry
Direct, personal, student-friendly writing style
Innovative design to aid comprehension: four types of box to seperate material from main text; colours of structures and reaction schemes; end of chapter problems

A new style of textbook, aimed principally at the European (and British in particular) student. It is needed because almost all current organic chemistry texts are written to a fixed American pattern. This text is different from these in a number of important ways: The approach is based on explanation rather than fact. The functional group approach (alkane, alkene, alkyne) has served American State College readers well but increasingly students and instructors are attracted more to an approach based on mechanism and reaction type. This approach aims at understanding rather than factual knowledge and, though slower at the start, eventually gives the student power to understand compounds and reactions never previously encountered. This is a big advantage in a science already too large for individuals to learn and which is annually expanding at an ever greater rate. The basics of the subject are explained carefully and thoroughly. How to draw molecules realistically and how to draw mechanisms to reveal the fundamental chemistry are both emphasised. Important points are revisited when they become relevant in later chapters. Examples are very important too. New examples are given each time a concept resurfaces, and examples from everyday life and medicinal chemistry are frequently used. The authors want the readers to be excited by the universality of organic chemistry rather than be overwhelmed by facts. The design of the book has features to help comprehension. Structures are drawn in red, and black is used on them for emphasis. Other colours are used flexibly to draw attention to atoms, molecules, orbitals, arrows or whatever the authors want to emphasise rather than being used in a rigid systematic way. There are four types of "box" used to separate material from the main text, ranging from extra important summaries to diversions which can be omitted at first reading. The early chemistry chapters feature carbonyl group reactions because addition to carbonyl groups is probably the easiest reaction to understand. Thereafter the chemistry develops in a logical sequence but chapters on spectroscopy, stereochemistry etc are interspersed among those dealing with chemical reactions. From time to time review chapters summarise what has been described in a particular area. A personal and honest approach is adopted. The authors write clearly and directly to the reader, sharing their enthusiasms, understandings and doubts. If they believe an explanation is imperfect or controversial, they say so. They show that organic chemistry is developing rapidly, and that new ideas continually emerge to replace the old. The authors know from experience what conceptual difficulties often overwhelm students at an early stage in their studies and they devote more space to these points, give more examples, and revisit them when they can be applied. The aim is to help the readers master these points for themselves rather than just learn them off by heart.

Readership: Major course text suitable for adoption for all mainstream undergraduate organic chemistry courses for use from the beginning/introductory level.

Contents

1. What is organic chemistry?

2. Organic structures

3. Determining organic structures

4. Structure of molecules

5. Organic reactions

6. Nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group

7. Delocalization and conjugation

8. Acidity, basicity, and pKa

9. Using organometallic reagents to make C-C bonds

10. Conjugate addition

11. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance

12. Nucleophilic substitution at the carbonyl (C=O) group

13. Equilibria, rates, and mechanisms: summary of mechanistic principles

14. Nucleophilic substitution at C=O with loss of carbonyl oxygen

15. Review of spectroscopic methods

16. Stereochemistry

17. Nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon

18. Conformational analysis

19. Elimination reactions

20. Electrophilic addition to alkenes

21. Formation and reactions of enols and enolates

22. Electrophilic aromatic substitution

23. Electrophilic alkenes

24. Chemoselectivity: selective reactions and protection

25. Synthesis in action

26. Alkylation of enolates

27. Reactions of enolates with aldehydes and ketones: the aldol reaction

28. Acylation at carbon

29. Conjugate addition of enolates

30. Retrosynthetic analysis

31. Controlling the geometry of double bonds

32. Determination of stereochemistry by spectroscopic methods

33. Stereoselective reactions of cyclic compounds

34. Diastereoselectivity

35. Pericyclic reactions 1: cycloadditions

36. Pericyclic reactions 2: sigmatropic and electrocyclic reactions

37. Rearrangements

38. Fragmentation

39. Radical reactions

40. Synthesis and reactions of carbenes

41. Determining reaction mechanisms

42. Saturated heterocycles and stereoelectronics

43. Aromatic heterocycles 1: structures and reactions

44. Aromatic heterocycles 2: synthesis

45. Asymmetric synthesis

46. Organo-main-group chemistry I: sulfur

47. Organo-main-group chemistry II: boron, silicon, and tin

48. Organometallic chemistry

49. The chemistry of life

50. Mechanisms in biological chemistry

51. Natural products

52. Polymerization

53. Organic chemistry today

Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Jonathan Clayden, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Manchester University,
Nick Greeves, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Liverpool University,
Stuart Warren, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, and
Peter Wothers, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, both at Cambridge University

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