Fundamental Concepts Of Introductory Organic Chemistry By Inquisition 1st Edition

Description

Introductory organic chemistry follows the 80:20 rule. The first subjects introduced amount to about 20% of the course, but tend to account for 80% of the value. These subjects are: (i) bonding and hybridization; (ii) conformations of hydrocarbons (and how to draw organic structures); (iii) fragments and functional groups; (iv) conformations of cyclic hydrocarbons; (v) curly arrows to depict electron flow; (vi) resonance; (vii) acids and bases: (viii) priority rules; and, (ix) chirality. Τhose are the chapters in this book. Students who understand these nine topics well, and early, almost inevitably do well in the course. Those who do not suffer because these keep coming up over the whole course and they keep loosing points over the same issues. I embedded lots of videos because these subjects are so important. The intention is students should watch the videos in the order they are introduced in the book, then try to answer the problems covering theory and applications of each subject. This eworkbook is designed to challenge undergraduates so they should be able handle exams to a high level of difficulty; easy problem set books are available elsewhere. Answers to all the problems are online at byinquisition.org, but students should avoid looking at them until they have studiously tried to answer. All the videos linked to in this book are freely available on YouTube. This book is set at a much reduced introductory price for six months from Aug 1, 2024. Preliminary versions of each chapter in this eworkbook were originally offered individually, but they have now been discontinued; the current version is much improved.