Arrow–Pushing in Organic Chemistry: An Easy Approach to Understanding Reaction Mechanisms

Reviews of the First Edition: fills an important gap in undergraduate education, and I would encourage every instructor of organic chemistry to seriously evaluate this text, as a substantive aid. This book is definitely well worth its price!" Angewandte Chemie International Edition serves as a valuable workbook to counteract student memorization and compartmentalization of organic chemistry material. a great supplemental resource to guide the novice organic chemistry student down the path to a true understanding of the subject." Chemical Education Today The high point of the book is the provision of a large number of carefully targeted problems at the end of each chapter, complete with well explained worked answers. I am sure that these will be highly useful to students . Physical Sciences Centre Reviews

Most organic chemistry texts intimidate through sheer size, encyclopedic presentation of reactions, and a huge amount of material to memorize. Building on the legacy of a highly successful first edition, this book takes a better and easier way to approach the subject the arrow pushing strategy that reduces organic chemistry to the study of interactions between organic acids and bases and builds from there.

To help the students discouraged by the belief that this topic cannot be mastered without significant memorization, the 2nd edition of Arrow Pushing in Organic Chemistry serves as a handy supplement for understanding the subject. New and updated chapters cover free radicals, carbenes, and pericyclic reaction mechanisms.  Additionally, problem sets for each chapter emphasize the important concepts, reinforcing the reader′s knowledge of chemistry and introducing other aspects of organic chemistry discussed in latter chapters or in a student′s class.

Key benefits and features include:

          New chapters, an expanded index, and additional problem sets complete with detailed solutions

          Introduction of ionic and non–ionic reactive species and reaction mechanisms

          Strategies to predict reactive species, sites of reactions, and reaction products

Daniel E. Levy, PhD, is the Owner of DEL BioPharma LLC.  He previously worked at Glycomed, COR Therapeutics, Scios, and Intradigm.  Dr. Levy developed, with Dr. Péter Fügedi, short courses entitled Modern Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry and The Organic Chemistry of Sugars.  Dr. Levy has three books to his credit, including the first edition of Arrow Pushing in Organic Chemistry (Wiley, 2008). He received his bachelors in chemistry from the University of California – Berkeley, and his doctorate in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.