Organic Chemistry: Mechanistic Patterns 2nd Edition

A first for introductory Organic Chemistry titles: this text holistically focuses on a mechanistic approach, which has proven to achieve a deeper understanding of chemical reactivity. This approach visualizes reactivity as a collection of patterns in electron movement, making it possible for students to describe why a reaction occurred and predict how a chemical will react, even if they have never seen a particular reaction before. This text also takes great care to establish a progression of reactivity, from simple to complex, introducing functional groups as necessary, while focusing on the reaction at hand, rather than the various things that each functional group does. [gtm-s26-OrgChem]