Solutions guide to accompany Organic chemistry

By Addison Ault

With a reputation for outstanding scientific quality, Organic Chemistry by G. Marc Loudon is a textbook that students will actually want to read. This much-anticipated fourth edition continues its predecessors' popular and unique mechanistic approach within a functional group framework. Enhanced biological and biochemical material makes it ideal for chemistry majors as well as pre-medical and pre-pharmacy students taking a full-year, sophomore- level course. Loudon's excellent use of language and reader-friendly style transform organic chemistry into a logical, understandable, and exciting subject for students.In use at undergraduate and graduate schools of all levels, this authoritative yet accessible volume is packed with effective analogies that enliven and clarify rigorous discussions of important concepts. For example, Loudon uses a flute player jumping between musical octaves to explain transitions between quantum levels. An engaging detective with combined characteristics from Sherlock Holmes and James Bond depicts resonance structures. Thanks to humorous characters like Flick Flaskflinger and Professor Havno Scentz, problem-solving becomes simultaneously challenging and entertaining. Varying from the routine to the complex, Loudon's problems are renowned for their originality, their range of difficulty levels, and their ability to teach students to understand and predict organic reactivity rather than just memorize facts. In addition, Loudon blends biological, environmental, and industrial applications of organic chemistry into the body of the text-rather than separating them as "special topics"-giving students an integrated sense of the subject in its real-life context.Other FeaturesDT Uses a high-resolution 300 MHz spectra run specifically for this text in an easy-to-read format that makes splitting patterns very clear.DT Includes new sections on transition-metal organometallic chemistry, reactions of pyridoxal phosphate, combinatorial synthesis, and drug design.DT Emphasizes both Bronsted and Lewis acid-base chemistry and their associated curved-arrow notations.DT Provides more than 1,500 excellent in-text problems that challenge students to think and analyze rather than just memorize.DT Presents "boxed asides" with interesting historical vignettes and analogies that enrich the text.DT Utilizes extensive cross-references between important concepts, thus saving students trips to the index.DT Supplemented by a CD-ROM--"Dynamic Organic Chemistry"--containing original animations (Mac and Windows compatible).DT Accompanied by a comprehensive Study Guide and Solutions Manual, acclaimed as one of the best in the field. This combination guide/manual supplies not only answers but also detailed solutions to all text problems. Its "Study Guide Links" show students how to solve problems, provide shortcuts to mastering particular topics, and offer detailed discussions of concepts that students often find difficult. Full chapter outlines, a glossary of terms, and reaction reviews are provided.

• Format: Loose Leaf
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201144360
• ISBN13: 9780201144369
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 1042 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great text

I have found this text to be well written and very helpful. Organic Chemistry is quite difficult in general, but this book takes you through everything in a clear and concise manner. Lots of problems to practice. It may also help to get the solutions guide which answers the problems setp-by-step and gives another perspective/sumary of the material.

Stupendous

A number of times, fellow students entering organic chemistry have asked to buy my Loudon textbook and the accompanying study guide. But I declined - "my Loudons" are staying with me for the long haul, I said, as I encouraged them to buy their own new copies. This book is simply marvelous. It has plenty of stimulating illustrations and examples, and its many problems progress gradually from trivial to challenging and instructive. (I did every end-of-chapter problem for the first eleven chapters, and the resulting factual retention and depth of understanding have served me extremely well.) But, most importantly, its exposition is rock-solid, full of the lucid analogies and consistent mechanistic logic that make organic chemistry tractable. It was telling that I started to get irritated with the book after 800 or so pages. When I asked myself why, I realized that it was no fault of the text but simply that fact that Loudon had already improved my thinking so greatly that I was constantly anticipating him! The study guide/solutions manual is also indispensable - it has fully worked-out solutions to every single problem as well as "Study Guide Links" covering more peripheral (but often very interesting and useful) material. To be sure, the book is on the wordy side, and it is not completely comprehensive, though these attributes are quite acceptable in an introduction. To a p-chem kid like me, the treatment of the physical phenomena underlying NMR and IR spectroscopy was far too superficial, though the explanations were fine for structure determination. Loudon scattered valuable and compact spectral tables throughout the second half of the book as the corresponding functional groups were introduced, which made the book harder to use as a spectroscopy reference than it could have been. Its CD-ROM is a little hokey, and its price has kept going up, as this web page makes evident. But these drawbacks pale in comparison to Loudon's stupendous treatment of the basic substance. My Loudons have given me strategies to tackle problems in nanopatterning research, they have gotten me through problem sets in cell biology, and they will stay with me as a reference as long as I am a chemist. They will not disappoint.

BEST ORGANIC TEXT

I sold my textbooks that I had used for Organic I (Wade), and Organic II (Solomons) in the middle of the semester and bought this one instead (since our teacher doesn't use the book, only his notes). I found this book so much easier to learn from. Especially for someone who has had trouble learning the subject.

This is the best organic text!

This is my favorite chemistry book. This book is different from others because it's conversational in tone and easy to read. If more chemists wrote like this, there would be a lot fewer discouraged potential chemists out there. The electron diagrams lead to complete understanding of reactions so you don't need to memorize them. The problems are interesting puzzles. You will want to do more than the ones that are assigned just to find out what the answer is. The accompanying solution manual provides all the details needed to completely understand the answers. Chemistry can be beautiful and understandable when a book is written this well.

An excellent, clearly written book

I took organic chemistry last year, and I am so glad that this book was used as our textbook. Anyone who studies one of the sciences knows all too well that not many textbooks out there are at all easy to understand. Loudon's book is very clearly written, and he succeeds very well in putting information into words. At the same time, the book is not "dumbed down," which I appreciated.