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    Organic Chemistry - A Tenth Edition

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    John E. McMurry, Cornell University

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    ISBN 13: 9781951693985

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    Language: English

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    Reviewed by Christine Hermann, Chair, Full Professor, Radford University on 7/23/24

    The chapter topics are those that are typically found in an organic textbook. It is illustrated with a lot of color. read more

    Reviewed by Vanessa Garcia, Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on 5/3/24

    McMurry does a great job at breaking down terms in the glossary. read more

    Reviewed by Mary Robert Garrett, Professor of Chemistry and Division I (BIO, CHM, MAT, NUR, PHY) Chair, Berea College on 11/29/23

    Yes. This textbook covers a wealth of organic chemistry content and could be used for three organic chemistry courses--Organic Chemistry I, Organic Chemistry II, and Advanced Organic Chemistry. Key terms can be found bolded in the text, and in a... read more

    Table of Contents

    • Dedication and Preface
    • Chapter 1: Structure and Bonding
    • Chapter 2: Polar Covalent Bonds; Acids and Bases
    • Chapter 3: Organic Compounds: Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry
    • Chapter 4: Organic Compounds: Cycloalkanes and Their Stereochemistry
    • Chapter 5: Stereochemistry at Tetrahedral Centers
    • Chapter 6: An Overview of Organic Reactions
    • Chapter 7: Alkenes: Structure and Reactivity
    • Chapter 8: Alkenes: Reactions and Synthesis
    • Chapter 9: Alkynes: An Introduction to Organic Synthesis
    • Chapter 10: Organohalides
    • Chapter 11: Reactions of Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitutions and Eliminations
    • Chapter 12: Structure Determination: Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Spectroscopy
    • Chapter 13: Structure Determination: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
    • Chapter 14: Conjugated Compounds and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
    • Chapter 15: Benzene and Aromaticity
    • Chapter 16: Chemistry of Benzene: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
    • Chapter 17: Alcohols and Phenols
    • Chapter 18: Ethers and Epoxides; Thiols and Sulfides
    • Chapter 19: Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition Reactions
    • Chapter 20: Carboxylic Acids and Nitriles
    • Chapter 21: Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution Reactions
    • Chapter 22: Carbonyl Alpha-Substitution Reactions
    • Chapter 23: Carbonyl Condensation Reactions
    • Chapter 24: Amines and Heterocycles
    • Chapter 25: Biomolecules: Carbohydrates
    • Chapter 26: Biomolecules: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
    • Chapter 27: Biomolecules: Lipids
    • Chapter 28: Biomolecules: Nucleic Acids
    • Chapter 29: The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways
    • Chapter 30: Orbitals and Organic Chemistry: Pericyclic Reactions
    • Chapter 31: Synthetic Polymers
    • Appendix A. Nomenclature of Polyfunctional Organic Compounds
    • Appendix B. Acidity Constants for Some Organic Compounds
    • Appendix C. Glossary
    • Appendix D. Periodic Table
    • Answer Key

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    • About the Book

      John McMurry's Organic Chemistry is renowned as the most clearly written book available for organic chemistry. In John McMurry's words, "I wrote this book because I love writing. I get great pleasure and satisfaction from taking a complicated subject, turning it around until I see it clearly from a new angle, and then explaining it in simple words." In Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition from OpenStax, McMurry continues this tradition while updating scientific discoveries, highlighting new applications, scrutinizing every piece of art, and providing example problems to assist students. Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition continues to meet the scope and sequence of a two-semester organic chemistry course that follows a functional group approach. A highlighted list of changes along with a detailed table of contents and ancillary descriptions can be found on the Instructor and Student resources sections of this page. John McMurry decided to publish Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition under an open license as a tribute to his son, Peter McMurry, who passed away from cystic fibrosis in December 2019. Please click here to learn more about Peter's legacy and to support the fight against cystic fibrosis.

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      John E. McMurry is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. He holds an A.B. degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. McMurry has authored over 100 research papers and is well-known for his contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly the development of the McMurry reaction. This reaction involves the coupling of two molecules of ketone or aldehyde to produce an alkene when treated with titanium(III) chloride and a reducing agent like Zn(Cu). The McMurry reaction has found extensive use in the laboratory synthesis of complex organic molecules and in the commercial synthesis of various drugs by the pharmaceutical industry.

      McMurry was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1985 and received a Max Planck Society Research Award in 1991. Apart from his scientific contributions, McMurry is also a prolific author in the field of chemistry education. He has written 45 undergraduate chemistry textbooks, which have been translated into 12 languages and used worldwide. Among his notable works, Organic Chemistry, first published in 1984, stands as his most popular textbook.

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