Publisher's Synopsis
This new edition of a text on organic chemistry introduces new concepts only as needed and immediately illustrates them with concrete examples. Wherever possible, the author ties material together with brief reviews, overviews, and reaction summaries resulting in a text that should help students mentally organize the material, understand concepts instead of just memorizing facts, and make sense of the vast amount of material they encounter in the study of this subject.;The author uses a simple but important polar reaction - the addition of HBr to an alkene - as the lead-off reaction to illustrate the general principles of organic reactions. This should offer students the key to understanding thousands of ionic reactions. By selecting this particular model, the author is able to offer an unusually early presentation of organic reactions.;This book should be of interest to students taking an introduction to principles of organic chemistry course for science, chemistry and pre-medical degrees.
