A reactions oriented course is a staple of most graduate organic programs, and synthesis is taught either as a part of that course or as a special topic. Ideally, the incoming student is an organic major, who has a good working knowledge of basic reactions, stereochemistry and conformational principles. In fact, however, many (often most) of the students in a first year graduate level organic course have deficiencies in their undergraduate work, are not organic majors and are not synthetically inclined. To save students much time catching up this text provides a reliable and readily available source for background material that will enable all graduate students to reach the same high level of proficiency in organic chemistry. Produced over many years with extensive feedback from students taking an organic chemistry course this book provides a reaction based approach. The first two chapters provide an introduction to functional groups; these are followed by chapters reviewing basic organic transformations (e.g. oxidation, reduction). The book then looks at carbon-carbon bond formation reactions and ways to 'disconnect' a bigger molecule into simpler building blocks. Most chapters include an extensive list of questions to test the reader's understanding. There is also a new chapter outlining full retrosynthetic analyses of complex molecules which highlights common problems made by scientists. The book is intended for graduate and postgraduate students, scientific researchers in chemistry
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wavefunction, Incorporated
ISBN-13
9781890661403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109210485
Product Key Features
Author
Michael B Smith
Publication Name
Organic Synthesis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Chemistry
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
1534 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
2890g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael B Smith
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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