Intermediate Organic Chemistry

Continuing the legacy of its distinguished predecessors, the3rd edition of Intermediate Organic Chemistrygives students the information and conceptual skills needed to makethe transition from introductory to graduate–level organicchemistry and to fully comprehend published research. Revised andupdated, this new edition features extensive problems in eachchapter for students to work through in learning thematerial.

Chapters describe key aspects of organic synthesis stereochemistry, functional group transformations, bond formation,synthesis planning, mechanisms, and spectroscopy.  Thethorough update of the text includes new examples and literaturereferences and discussion of online resources that are commonplacenow for literature searches. An appendix on protecting groups hasbeen added  and a section on green chemistry added to thephysical influences on reactions chapter, and the author hasrewritten the last chapter to survey organic spectroscopy.

Balancing synthetic and physical organic chemistry in an accessibleway for students, Intermediate Organic Chemistry remains anideal text for one–semester, upper–level undergraduate orfirst–year graduate courses, eliminating the problem of selectingor omitting subjects from advanced texts. Alongside students, thebook is also useful to practicing chemists wanting to update theirunderstanding of particular topics.

Ann Fabirkiewicz, PhD, is Professor of Chemistry at Randolph College where she teaches organic chemistry and biochemistry, including one on Intermediate Organic Chemistry.

John Stowell, PhD, was Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Orleans. His previous books include the first two editions of Intermediate Organic Chemistry and Carbanions in Organic Synthesis, published by Wiley.