Thinking Like a Physical Organic Chemist

Steven M. Bachrach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-764037-1 (ISBN)

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Physical organic chemistry is a modern scientific subdiscipline whose reach is pervasive throughout chemistry, underpinning every academic and industrial synthetic process. All current organic chemistry textbooks rest upon the foundations of physical organic chemistry, and all of them rely on the concept of reaction mechanism as the means for understanding organic reactions. Yet many outside of the discipline either fear the topic or know nothing about it at all. The perceived difficulty of the subject of organic chemistry often prevents consideration of how the methods of organic chemists, their process of asking questions, devising tests, and building models, can be translated into other disciplines. In Thinking Like a Physical Organic Chemist, Professor Steven M. Bachrach uses analogies and colorful examples to provide experts and nonexperts alike with an alternative way of thinking about organic chemistry. He highlights a number of reaction mechanisms, walking through the important experiments that they rest upon, with an emphasis on the rules and logic systems that organic chemists have built to understand and predict reaction outcomes.

Steven M. Bachrach is Dean of the Artis College of Science and Technology at Radford University. Previously, Bachrach was Dean of the School of Science at Monmouth University, and the Dr. D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University. He has published more than 130 articles and is the author of Computational Organic Chemistry. He was a pioneer in exploring the use of the Internet for chemical publication. The National Science Foundation, the Welch Foundation, and the Dreyfus Foundation have supported his research. He lives in Virginia, USA.

Preface
Chapter 1. Itineraries
Chapter 2. Chemistry Basics
Chapter 3. Tour de France Stages
Chapter 4. Potential Energy Surface (PES) Features
Chapter 5. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. I. Basics and SN1
Chapter 6. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. II. SN2
Chapter 7. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. III. Stereochemistry
Chapter 8. Interlude: Philosophy of Science
Chapter 9. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. IV. Further Details
Chapter 10. Elimination Reactions. I. E1 and E2
Chapter 11. Elimination Reactions. II. Conformation and Stereochemistry
Chapter 12: The Truth about Substitution and Elimination Reactions
Chapter 13. More Hard Truths: Alkyls as Electron Donating Groups
Chapter 14. Addition Reactions: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control
Chapter 15. Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
Chapter 16. Aromaticity
Chapter 17. Pericyclic Reactions
Chapter 18. Reaction Dynamics
Chapter 19. Lessons Learned
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2023
Zusatzinfo	200 B&W illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 163 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Organische Chemie
ISBN-10	0-19-764037-0 / 0197640370
ISBN-13	978-0-19-764037-1 / 9780197640371
Zustand	Neuware