| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Thinking Like a Physical Organic Chemist -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Itineraries -- 2. Chemistry Basics -- 3. Tour de France Stages -- 4. Potential Energy Surface Features -- 5. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. I. Basics and SN1 -- 6. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. II. SN2 -- 7. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. III. Stereochemistry -- 8. Interlude: Philosophy of Science -- 8.1. Pattern Recognition -- 8.2. Categories and Hierarchies -- 8.3. Models -- 8.4. Testing -- 8.5. Beauty and Symmetry -- 8.6. Occam's Razor -- 8.7. Not a Proof |
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9. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. IV. Further Details -- 10. Elimination Reactions. I. E1 and E2 -- 11. Elimination Reactions. II. Conformation and Stereochemistry -- 12. The Truth about Substitution and Elimination Reactions -- 13. More Hard Truths: Alkyls as Electron-​Donating Groups -- 14. Addition Reactions: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control -- 15. Quantum Mechanical Tunneling -- 16. Aromaticity -- 17. Pericyclic Reactions -- 18. Reaction Dynamics -- 19. Lessons Learned -- 19.1. Allegiance to Fact -- 19.2. Careful Development of Hypotheses -- 19.3. Careful Experimental Design |
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19.4. Look to Adjacent Disciplines for New Techniques and New Ideas -- 19.5. Embrace Beauty -- 19.6. Question Underlying Assumptions, Especially Hidden Assumptions -- 19.7. Embrace Change -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Physical organic chemistry is a modern scientific subdiscipline whose reach is pervasive throughout chemistry, underpinning every academic and industrial synthetic process. In Thinking Like a Physical Organic Chemist, Professor Steven M. Bachrach uses analogies and colorful examples to provide experts and nonexperts alike with an alternative way of thinking about organic chemistry. He highlights a number of reaction mechanisms, walking through the important experiments that they rest upon, with an emphasis on the rules and logic systems that organic chemists have built to understand and predic |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197640395 |
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0197640397 |
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