Hrvoj Vancik

Basic Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This work provides an overview of the basics of organic chemistry for non-chemists. As such, this book should be very useful for university students of biology, molecular biology, ecology, medicine, agriculture, forestry, and other specialties where the knowledge of organic chemistry plays the important role but is not a core discipline. The book should also be of interest to non-professionals, and it may serve as a manual or repetitorium to high school teachers.

The text is divided into eleven chapters on the basis of the systematization of fundamental organic reaction types, and classes of organic compounds. The first chapters comprise fundamental aspects of structural theory, reaction mechanisms, electronic structure, some basic spectroscopy, and properties of main groups of organic compounds. At the end of the book, the largest chapter contains the elements of the organic chemistry of natural products. Comparison of the reactions in the laboratory with the analogous molecular transformations in living cells will enable the reader to better understand the basic principles of biochemistry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 179
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319076058
• Artikelnr.: 43789394

Autorenporträt

¿Hrvoj B. J. Van¿ik (Varadin, Croatia, 1952) is professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia. His scientific activity comprises the study of organic reaction mechanisms, especially thermally induced reactions in solid-state. Most of his work belongs to the field of vibrational structures of carbocations and solid-state reactions of nitroso and polynitroso compounds. His work in philosophy of science is focused on the theory of complexity in chemistry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Alkanes, composition, constitution, and configuration.- 2. Functional groups.- 3. Electronic structure of organic molecules.- 4. Alkenes and alkynes.- 5. Substitutions on saturated carbon atom.- 6. Nucleophilic additions.- 7. Stereochemistry, symmetry, and molecular chirality.- 8. Derivatives of carboxylic acids.- 9. Electrophilic substitutions.- 10. Pericyclic reactions.- 11. Organic natural products.- 12. Organic supramolecular and supermolecular structures.

Rezensionen

From the book reviews:
"This concise book will be useful for students who need to learn the fundamentals of organic chemistry and how it pertains to biochemistry and biology. ... This content is a good primer for those about to take a biochemistry course. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and Upper-division undergraduates; professionals/practitioners." (C. E. Stilts, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)