Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition

by Paula Yurkanis Bruice

For one-term courses in Organic Chemistry.

A comprehensive, problem-solving approach for the brief Organic Chemistry course.
Modern and thorough revisions to the streamlined, Essential Organic Chemistry focus on developing students’ problem solving and analytical reasoning skills throughout organic chemistry. Organized around reaction similarities and rich with contemporary biochemical connections, Bruice’s Third Edition discourages memorization and encourages students to be mindful of the fundamental reasoning behind organic reactivity: electrophiles react with nucleophiles.
 
Developed to support a diverse student audience studying organic chemistry for the first and only time, Essentials fosters an understanding of the principles of organic structure and reaction mechanisms, encourages skill development through new Tutorial Spreads and and emphasizes bioorganic processes. Contemporary and rigorous, Essentials addresses the skills needed for the 2015 MCAT and serves both pre-med and biology majors.
 
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Genres: Chemistry, Textbooks

704 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2005

Reviews

[Jamie Connolly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t normally review textbooks but I made an exception for this one. It’s so well done. Comprehensive and, most important, logical in its progression with no gaps of understanding. So often, especially in science books, there is oversight of certain elements needed to fully understand the material. Not in this book at all. A hard subject, well-explained, made easy to understand. Only someone with extremely high understanding could explain something like this in simple terms. I even emailed the author I was so impressed. And for someone like me, who isn’t enrolled in any college and has no professor to contact, a book like this is perfect. 5 stars.

[Cristina R · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a more advanced book. For what I needed it was a bit too much, it goes into detail on different functional groups and how they interact and so on. You have to have a good grasp of chemistry before picking this up. Throughout the book I had different exercises to practice and that was wonderful but to get the solutions you have to buy a different workbook. I found that annoying. I would stick with Chemistry 3. It's more detailed and explains concepts better.

[Melissa Kidd · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a necessary book. It wasn't bad but a little dry. I can't imagine any book on chemistry would be anything but dry for me. Not sure what else to say about it than that. Not very many pictures, lots of reaction problems.