New Content
- Expanded and improved coverage of reactivity and selectivity (Chapter 3)
- Updated coverage of the ozone layer (Chapter 3)
- New Section: Nucleophilic trapping of carbocations is nonstereoselective (Chapter 12)
- Expanded coverage of the stereochemistry of syn- and anti- addition to alkenes (Chapter 12)
- Revised section: Alkynes in Nature and Medicine (Chapter 13)
- Updated coverage of compounds made of pure carbon, including grapheme (Chapter 15)
- New information on helicenes (Chapter 15)
- New Section: Enolate formation can be regioselective (Chapter 18)
- New Section: Enolates are ambident nucleophiles
- Updated coverage of stereoselective aldol reactions in nature and in the laboratory: Organocatalysis (Chapter 18)
- Expanded coverage of competitive pathways and reversibility in intramolecular aldol condensation reactions (Chapter 18)
- Updated coverage of bioplastics (Chapter 19)
Expanded! WHIP Problem-solving Strategy Throughout
Volhardt/Schore gives students an effective four-step problem-solving strategy:
- What is the question asking
- How to start
- Information needed
- Proceed
The book features 20 problems using the WHIP strategy, starting in Chapter 1 and appearing in key places throughout the text.
New Keys to Success Sections
These eight sections offer students specific instructions for writing reaction mechanisms and using curved arrow notations.
New Real Life Boxes
Previously called Chemical Highlights, these features are now even more focused on topics that have particular relevant to pre-med students
New Coverage of Biological, Medical, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Applications, including:
- Stomach acid, peptic ulcers, pharmacology, and organic chemistry (Chapter 2).
- "Food calories" (Chapter 3)
- Male contraceptives (Real Life 4-3)
- Conformational drug design (Chapter 4)
- Fluorinated pharmaceuticals (Chapter 6 )
- Solvation and drug activity (Chapter 6)
- Synthetic drugs (Chapter 10)
- Infared thermography (Chapter 11)
- L-Dopa and Parkinson’s disease (Chapter 12)
- Elastol’s environmental benefits (Chapter 12)
- Ethene and fruit ripening (Chapter 12)
- Self-darkening sunglasses (Chapter 14)
- The meaning of sunscreen SPF values (Chapter 15)
- Sulfa drugs (Chapter 15)
- Medicinal uses of the tropical plant Zingiber zerumbet (Chapter 15)
- Action of Allegra (Chapter 19)
- Human bitter taste (Chapter 19)
- The food industry’s development of healthier oils (Chapter 19)
- Food chemistry (Chapter 24)
New Online Homework Option
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