By understanding these principles, you'll have a coherent framework that will help you better understand your course. Study more efficiently and effectively: General Chemistry as a Second Language provides time-saving study tips and problem-solving strategies that will help you succeed in the course.
Improve your problem-solving skills: General Chemistry as a Second Language will help you develop the skills you need to solve a variety of problem types - even unfamiliar ones! Have no fear - this hands-on guide helps you solve the many types of organic chemistry problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner.
With memorization tricks, problem-solving shortcuts, and lots of hands-on practice exercises, you'll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You'll see how to work with resonance; the triple-threat alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes; functional groups and their reactions; spectroscopy; and more!
Know how to solve the most common organic chemistry problems Walk through the answers and clearly identify where you went wrong or right with each problem Get the inside scoop on acing your exams! Use organic chemistry in practical applications with confidence. Understand the fundamental reaction mechanisms relevant to organic chemistry, beginning with Sn2 reactions and progressing to Sn1 reactions and other reaction types.
The problem sets in this book, an excellent supplemental text, emphasize the important aspects of each chapter and will reinforce the key ideas without requiring memorization. Score: 4. The book will help students understand and practice good lab safety. It will also help students become familiar with basic instrumentation, techniques and apparatus and help them master the latest techniques such as interpretation of infrared spectroscopy.
The guide is mostly macroscale in its orientation. With Organic Chemistry, Student Solution Manual and Study Guide, 4th Edition, students can learn to become proficient at approaching new situations methodically, based on a repertoire of skills.
It explores the critical concepts while also examining why they are relevant. The core content is presented within the framework of predicting products, proposing mechanisms, and solving synthesis problems. Readers will fine-tune the key skills involved in solving those types of problems with the help of interactive, step-by-step instructions and problems. Soni Publisher : S. Popular Books. The Summer Proposal by Vi Keeland.
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Outside of the United States, please contact your local sales representative. Description: 4th edition. Chemistry, Organic—Problems, exercises, etc. Is organic chemistry really as tough as everyone says it is?
The answer is yes and no. Yes, because you will spend more time on organic chemistry than you would spend in a course on underwater basket weaving.
Ask around, and you will find that most students think of organic chemistry as a memorization game. This is not true! Former organic chemistry students perpetuate the false rumor that organic chemistry is the toughest class on campus, because it makes them feel better about the poor grades that they received. Picture in your mind a movie where the plot changes every second.
So you try your hardest to wait until the movie is over before going to the bathroom. Sounds familiar? Organic chemistry is very much the same.
It is one long story, and the story actually makes sense if you pay attention. The plot constantly develops, and everything ties into the plot. If your attention wanders for too long, you could easily get lost.
You probably know at least one person who has seen one movie more than five times and can quote every line by heart. How can this person do that? The first time you watch a movie, you learn the plot. After the second time, you understand why individual scenes are necessary to develop the plot. After the third time, you understand why the dialogue was necessary to develop each scene. After the fourth time, you are quoting many of the lines by heart. Never at any time did you make an effort to memorize the lines.
You know them because they make sense in the grand scheme of the plot. If I were to give you a screenplay for a movie and ask you to memorize as much as you can in 10 hours, you would probably not get very far into it. If, instead, I put you in a room for 10 hours and played the same movie over again five times, you would know most of the movie by heart, without even trying.
Organic chemistry is exactly the same. Of course you will need to remember all of the terminology, but with enough practice, the terminology will become second nature to you. THE PLOT The first half of our story builds up to reactions, and we learn about the characteristics of molecules that help us understand reactions. We begin by looking at atoms, the building blocks of molecules, and what happens when they combine to form bonds. Then, we need a vocabulary to start talking about molecules, so we learn how to draw and name molecules.
We see how molecules move around in space, and we explore the relationships between similar types of molecules. At this point, we know the important characteristics of molecules, and we are ready to use our knowledge to explore reactions. Reactions take up the rest of the course, and they are typically broken down into chapters based on categories. Within each of these chapters, there is actually a subplot that fits into the grand story.
It will point out the major scenes in the plot of organic chemistry. The book will review the critical principles and explain why they are relevant to the rest of the course. In each section, you will be given the tools to better understand your textbook and lectures, as well as plenty of opportunities to practice the key skills that you will need to solve problems on exams.
In other words, you will learn the language of organic chemistry. This book cannot replace your textbook, your lectures, or other forms of studying. This book is not the Cliff Notes of Organic Chemistry. It focuses on the basic concepts that will empower you to do well if you go to lectures and study in addition to using this book.
To best use this book, you need to know how to study in this course. Understanding principles 2. Solving problems Although these two aspects are completely different, instructors will typically gauge your understanding of the principles by testing your ability to solve problems.
So you must master both aspects of the course. The principles are in your lecture notes, but you must discover how to solve problems.
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