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At heart, the second edition remains true to the first, being built on three principles:  An explanatory approach, through which the reader is motivated to understand the subject and not just learn the facts;  A mechanistic approach, giving the reader the power to understand compounds and reactions never previously encountered;  An evidence-based approach, setting out clearly how and why reactions happen as they do, giving extra depth to the reader's understanding.  The authors write clearly and directly, sharing with the reader their own fascination with the subject, and leading them carefully from topic to topic. Their honest and open narrative flags pitfalls and misconceptions, guiding the reader towards a complete picture of organic chemistry and its universal themes and principles.  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Important points are revisited when they become relevant in later chapters.  Examples are very important too. New examples are given each time a concept resurfaces, and examples from everyday life and medicinal chemistry are frequently used.  The authors want the readers to be excited by the universality of organic chemistry rather than be overwhelmed by facts. The design of the book has features to help comprehension.  Structures are drawn in red, and black is used on them for emphasis.  Other colours are used flexibly to draw attention to atoms, molecules, orbitals, arrows or whatever the authors want to emphasise rather than being used in a rigid systematic way.  There are four types of \"box\" used to separate material from the main text, ranging from extra important summaries to diversions which can be omitted at first reading. The early chemistry chapters feature carbonyl group reactions because addition to carbonyl groups is probably the easiest reaction to understand.  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