The New Ninth Edition of Organic Chemistry Incorporates More Biomedical Examples...

The New Ninth Edition of Organic Chemistry Incorporates More Biomedical Examples and Modern Reactions, as Well as Integrated Media for Practice and Assessment

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c80357) has announced the
addition of Organic Chemistry, 9th Edition to their offering.

Readers will find that this highly acclaimed book offers a
balanced approach to functional groups and mechanisms. The clear,
accessible presentation of key concepts will help them master basic
skills. Throughout the pages, the focus is placed on the important
ideas of organic chemistry and backs them up with illustrations and
challenging problems. The new ninth edition also incorporates more
biomedical examples and modern reactions, as well as integrated media
for practice and assessment.

About the Author

T.W. Graham Solomons did his undergraduate work at the Citadel and
received his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1959 from Duke
University where he worked with C.K. Bradsher. Following this he was a
Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester
where he worked with V. Boekelheide. In 1960 he became a charter
member of the faculty of the University of South Florida and became
Professor of Chemistry in 1973. In 1992 he was made Professor
Emeritus. In 1994 he was a visiting professor with the Faculty des
Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Universite Rene Descartes
(Paris V). He is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Sigma
Pi Sigma. He has received research grants from the Research
Corporation and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.
For several years he was director of an NSF-sponsored Undergraduate
Research Participation Program at USF. His research interests have
been in the areas of heterocyclic chemistry and unusual aromatic
compounds. He has published papers in the Journal of the American
Chemical Society, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, and the Journal of
Heterocyclic Chemistry. He has received several awards for
distinguished teaching. His organic chemistry textbooks have been
widely used for 20 years and have been translated into French,
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Malaysian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish,
Turkish, and Italian. He and his wife Judith have a daughter who is a
building conservator, a son who is an artist, and another son who is a
graduate student studying biochemistry.

Craig Barton Fryhle is Chair and Professor of Chemistry at Pacific
Lutheran University. He earned his B.A. degree from Gettysburg College
and Ph.D. from Brown University. His experiences at these institutions
shaped his dedication to mentoring undergraduate students in chemistry
and the liberal arts, which is a passion that burns strongly for him.
His research interests have been in areas relating to the shikimic
acid pathway, including molecular modeling and NMR spectrometry of
substrates and analogues, as well as structure and reactivity studies
of shikimate pathway enzymes using isotopic labeling and mass
spectrometry. He has mentored many students in undergraduate research,
a number of whom have later earned their Ph.D. degrees and gone on to
academic or industrial positions. he has participated in workshops on
fostering undergraduate participation in research, and has been an
invited participant in efforts by the National Science Foundation to
enhance undergraduate research in chemistry. He has received research
and instrumentation grants from ten National Science Foundation, the
M.J Murdock Charitable Trust, and other private foundations.

His work in chemical education, in addition to textbook
co-authorship, involves incorporation of student-let teaching in the
classroom and technology-based strategies in organic chemistry.

He has also developed experiments for undergraduate students
inorganic laboratory and instrumental analysis courses. He has been a
volunteer with the hands-on science program in Seattle public schools,
and chair of the Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical Society.
He lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters.

Content Outline:

1. THE BASICS: Bonding and Molecular Structure.

2. REPRESENTATIVE CARBON COMPOUNDS: Functional Groups,
Intermolecular Forces, and Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy.

3. AN INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIC REACTIONS AND THEIR MECHANISMS:
Acids and Bases.

4. NOMENCLATURE AND CONFORMATIONS OF ALKANES AND CYCLOALKANES.

5. STEREOCHEMISTRY: Chiral Molecules.

6. IONIC REACTIONS: Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination
Reactions of Alkyl Halides.

7. ALKENES AND ALKYNES I: Properties and Synthesis. Elimination
Reactions of Alkyl Halides.

8. ALKENES AND ALKYNES II: Addition Reaction.

9. NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND MASS SPECTROMETRY: Tools for
Structure Determination.

10. RADICAL REACTIONS.

11. ALCOHOLS AND ETHERS.

12. ALCOHOLS FROM CARBONYL COMPOUNDS: Oxidation-Reduction and
Organometallic Compounds.

13. CONJUGATED UNSATURATED SYSTEMS.

14. AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.

15. REACTIONS OF AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.

16. ALDEHYDES AND KETONES I: Nucleophilic Additions to the
Carbonyl Group.

17. ALDEHYDES AND KETONES II: Enols and Enolates.

18. CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES: Nucleophilic
Addiction-Elimination at the Acyl Carbon.

19. SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS OF (beta)-DICARBONYL COMPOUNDS: More
Chemistry of Enolates.

20. AMINES.

21. PHENOLS AND ARYL HALIDES: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution.

22. CARBOHYDRATES.

23. LIPIDS.

24. AMINO ACIDS & PROTEINS.

25. NUCLEIC ACIDS & PROTEIN SYNTHESIS.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Glossary.

Photo Credits.

Index.

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