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Arrow-Pushing in Organic Chemistry: An Easy Approach to Understanding Reaction Mechanisms
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Sep 2008, Pages: 302
Find an easier way to learn organic chemistry with Arrow-Pushing in Organic Chemistry: An Easy Approach to Understanding Reaction Mechanisms, a book that uses the arrow-pushing strategy to reduce this notoriously challenging topic to the study of interactions between organic acids and bases. 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.
During the past fifty years, organic chemistry has grown into a very mature and well-disciplined science. As such, introductory organic chemistry courses have been obliged to present the subject in a highly concentrated format covering literally hundreds of name reactions. Consequently, the route taken by many authors of organic chemistry textbooks has been to present the subject by listing multitudes of similar name reactions as a device to illustrate the fundamental mechanisms and reaction types relevant to organic chemistry. Psychologically, this induces the student to believe that memorization of this multitude of chemical reactions is the key to success in organic chemistry.
This book does not rely on specific name reactions as a device for teaching this subject. Instead, specific generic examples have been chosen in order to illustrate to the student how to recognize when a specific reaction type is relevant. In this respect, this book has been designed to aid the student in approaching the seemingly difficult subject of organic chemistry in a simple and straightforward manner. In addition to the text, problem sets have been designed for each chapter in order to emphasize the important aspects of each chapter, to reinforce the students current knowledge of chemistry, and to introduce the student to other aspects of organic chemistry discussed in the latter chapters in this book as well as aspects not discussed here but in the student's current organic chemistry class. As a whole, this book intended to be used as a study aid/supplement and not as a replacement for any beginning level organic chemistry textbook. In this context, many students may find organic chemistry much more approachable and exciting.
The methods described in this book reduce general organic chemistry to reactions between acids and bases. The concepts of acids and bases are covered in great depth in introductory chemistry courses. These courses do not, however, present acids and bases in the context of organic molecules. Therefore, the first two chapters are designed to acclimate students to the concepts of organic acids and then organic bases. The next chapters use the acid/base concepts to explain the fundamental reaction mechanisms relevant to organic chemistry. This discussion begins with the first mechanistic type presented to sophomore organic chemistry students - Sn2 reactions. Discussions of Sn2 reactions evolve into a study of Sn1 reactions presented in the following chapter. The following chapters present treatments of the remaining reaction types from which all students should be able to derive predicted products from almost any hypothetical organic reaction.
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