Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry

Offers a guide to charting the movements of electrons and atoms during the reactions of organic molecules. This title offers instructions on writing mechanisms in organic chemistry. It contains many problem sets and answers to all problems to help students work through general principles and applications.

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Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, Second Edition, is an invaluable guide to charting the movements of atoms and electrons in the reactions of organic molecules. Miller and Solomon illustrate that understanding organic reactions is based on applying general principles rather than the rote memorization of unrelated processes, and, in turn, emphasize that writing mechanisms is a practical method of applying knowledge of previously encountered reactions and reaction conditions to new reactions. Students and research chemists alike will find this book useful in providing a method of organizing and synthesizing an oftentimes overwhelming quantity of information into a set of general principles and guidelines for determining and describing organic reaction mechanisms.