ORGANIC REACT ANIM CDRM

This exciting new software ancillary is a timely and appropriate addition to an already outstanding teaching package. Like the Jones text, Organic Reaction Animations focuses on helping students to learn the "why" of organic reactions, not just the "what" and "how." The program includes short (approximately one minute) animations of thirty key organic reactions based on high-level calculations performed with the aid of the program Spartan by Wavefunction. Each reaction is represented in four ways: ball-and-stick model, space-filling model, ball- and-stick model with the highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMO) superimposed, and ball-and-stick model with the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO) superimposed. The animations are particularly helpful for students who find it hard to visualize molecular orbitals and want to understand the flow of electrons in organic reactions. This exciting new software ancillary is a timely and appropriate addition to an already outstanding teaching package. In addition, the animations are ideal for classroom display.