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Organic Chemistry Digital Update

Eighth Edition ©2022 Peter Vollhardt; Neil Schore

This edition of Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function maintains its defining framework based on the concept that an organic molecule’s structure will determine its function, while strengthening its focus on helping students understand reactions, mechanisms, and synthetic analysis and...

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A Dramatic Media Update for a Classic Text

This edition of Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function maintains its defining framework based on the concept that an organic molecule’s structure will determine its function, while strengthening its focus on helping students understand reactions, mechanisms, and synthetic analysis and their practical applications.

And now, this edition’s media content is available in Macmillan Learning’s breakthrough course platform, Achieve, which houses all of the book’s assessments, multimedia assets, e-book, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

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Text Features:

  • Expanded WHIP problem-solving strategy is included with solved exercises within each chapter, providing a guide for how students should approach problem solving: What How Information Proceed.
  • Electron pushing arrows are introduced in early sections and then reinforced in margins throughout the text to help students follow what is happening in the reaction
  • Worked Examples: Integrating the Concepts section at the end of every chapter includes a series of sample exercises with solutions of the chapter’s most important concepts.
  • A wide range of end-of-chapter problems include Chapter Integration Problems with step-by-step, worked out solutions, Team Problems for collaborative learning, and Pre-Professional Problems in the style of the MCAT.
  • Interlude: A Summary of Organic Reaction Mechanisms, following Chapter 14, summarizes the key mechanisms that drive the majority of organic reactions.
  • Reaction Mechanism Summary Roadmaps summarize the reactivity of each major functional group.

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  • Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions (included in the Achieve platform)
  • Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.

New Resources for Digital Update in Achieve

  • Animated Mechanism Tours explore the 2D and 3D structure of key reactions and allow the student to visualize each step. Assessment questions are included in each tour to help guide student understanding as they navigate the mechanism.  Animated Mechanism Tours are fully assignable in Achieve.
  • Assignable Chemcast Videos --All new problem-solving videos addressing the key concepts and problem types from each chapter and linked within the e-book.
  • Instructor Activity Guides (IAG)--Team problems included at the end of each chapter have been reimagined as active learning activities to use in class, recitation, or problem solving sessions. Each IAG includes worksheets (with a fully solved key), supporting clicker slides (with key), and utilizes the WHIP problem solving strategy from the book.
  • Enhanced-Book -Includes new embedded Chemcast Videos and reprint corrections where needed.
  • New LearningCurve newly aligned to Vollhardt, 8e and learning objectives
  • New Learning Objectives aligned specifically to Vollhardt/Shore and tied to Achieve Insights and Reporting
  • Updated Solutions Manual - link to purchase from within Vollhardt, 8e digital update course in Achieve
  • New End of Chapter questions select questions added in each chapter with the digital update.

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Table of Contents

1. Structure and Bonding in Organic Molecules

2. Structure and Reactivity: Acids and Bases, Polar and Nonpolar Molecules

3. Reactions of Alkanes: Bond-Dissociation Energies, Radical Halogenation, and Relative Reactivity

4. Cycloalkanes

5. Stereoisomers

6. Properties and Reactions of Haloalkanes: Bimolecular Nucleophilic Substitution

7. Further Reactions of Haloalkanes: Unimolecular Substitution and Pathways of Elimination

8. Hydroxy of Functional Group: Alcohols: Properties, Preparation, and Strategy of Synthesis

9. Further Reactions of Alcohols and the Chemistry of Ethers

10.Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Deduce Structure

11. Alkenes: Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry

12. Reactions to Alkenes

13. Alkynes: The Carbon

14. Delocalized Pi Systems: Investigation by Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy Interlude

15. Benzene and Aromaticity: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

16. Electrophilic Attack on Derivatives of Benzene: Substituents Control Regioselectivity

17. Aldehydes and Ketones: The Carbonyl Group

18. Enols, Enolates, and the Aldol Condensation: a,b-Unsaturated Aldehydes and Ketones

19. Carboxylic Acids

20. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

21. Amines and Their Derivatives: Functional Groups Containing Nitrogen

22. Chemistry of the Benzene Substituents: Alkylbenzenes, Phenols, and Benzenamines

23. Ester Enolates and the Claisen Condensation: Synthesis of b-Dicarbonyl Compounds; Acyl Anion Equivalents

24. Carbohydrates: Polyfunctional Compounds in Nature

25. Heterocycles: Heteroatoms in Cyclic Organic Compounds

26. Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids: Nitrogen-Containing Polymers in Nature

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K. Peter C. Vollhardt

K. Peter C. Vollhardt was born in Madrid, raised in Buenos Aires and Munich, studied at the University of Munich, got his Ph.D. with Professor Peter Garratt at the University College, London, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Bob Bergman (then) at the California Institute of Technology. He moved to Berkeley in 1974 when he began his efforts toward the development of organocobalt reagents in organic synthesis, the preparation of theoretically interesting hydrocarbons, the assembly of novel transition metal arrays with potential in catalysis, and the discovery of a parking space. Among other pleasant experiences, he was a Studienstiftler, Adolf Windaus medalist, Humboldt Senior Scientist, ACS Organometallic Awardee, Otto Bayer Prize Awardee, A. C. Cope Scholar, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize Holder, and recipient of the Medal of the University Aix-Marseille and an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is the current Chief Editor of Synlett. Among his more than 350 publications, he treasures especially this textbook in organic chemistry, translated into 13 languages. Peter is married to Marie-Jos Sat, a French artist, and they have two children, Paloma (b. 1994) and Julien (b. 1997).

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Neil E. Schore

Neil E. Schore was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1948 and educated in public schools in the Bronx, New York, and Ridgefield, New Jersey. He completed a B.A. with honors in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. Moving back to New York, he worked with the late Professor Nicholas J. Turro at Columbia University, studying photochemical and photophysical processes of organic compounds for his Ph.D. thesis. He first met co-author Peter Vollhardt in the 1970s when they both were doing postdoctoral work in Professor Robert Bergmans laboratory at Cal Tech. Since joining the UC-Davis faculty in 1976, Schore has taught organic chemistry to more than 15,000 nonchemistry majors, winning seven teaching awards, publishing over 100 papers in various areas related to organic chemistry, and refereeing several hundred local youth soccer games.  Neil is married to Carrie Erickson, a microbiologist at the UC-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. They have two children, Michael (b. 1981) and Stefanie (b. 1983), both of whom carried out experiments for the new Seventh Edition of Organic Chemistry.

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