Written by Organic Chemistry co-author Neil Schore, this invaluable manual includes chapter introductions to begin each section with extra help that highlight new materials, chapter outlines providing further detail around each section, detailed comments for each chapter, a glossary, and solutions to the end-of-chapter problems. Everything is presented in a way that shows students how to reason their way to the answer. With this step by step help, students will be able to gain the necessary knowledge they need to succeed when it comes to understanding organic chemistry.

Author Biography

Neil E. Shore is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, USA. Born in New Jersey in 1948, he was educated in public schools in the Bronx, New York, and Ridgefield, New Jersey. He completed a BA with honors in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. Moving back to New York, he worked with the late Professor Nicholas J. Turro at Columbia University, studying photochemical and photophysical processes of organic compounds for his PhD thesis. He first met co-author Peter Vollhardt in the 1970s when they both were doing postdoctoral work in Professor Robert Bergman's laboratory at Cal Tech. Since joining the UC-Davis faculty in 1976, Schore has taught organic chemistry to more than 15,000 nonchemistry majors, winning seven teaching awards, publishing over 100 papers in various areas related to organic chemistry, and refereeing several hundred local youth soccer games.