"Organic Chemistry, Eighth Edition" by Paula Bruice offers a conceptual framework for mixed-science majors, emphasizing the connections between reaction types. It promotes understanding over memorization, with updated content on substitution, elimination, and problem-solving. The text includes interactive tutorials for enhanced learning.
Paula Bruice's presentation in 'Organic Chemistry' provides mixed-science majors with the conceptual foundations, chemical logic, and problem-solving skills they need to reason their way to solutions for diverse problems in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, and medicine. The eighth edition builds a strong framework for thinking about organic chemistry by unifying principles of reactivity that students will apply throughout the course, discouraging memorization