Key Benefits: A comprehensive, problem-solving approach for the brief Organic Chemistry course. Modern and thorough revisions to the streamlined, Essential Organic Chemistry focus on developing students' problem solving and analytical reasoning skills throughout organic chemistry. Organized around reaction similarities and rich with contemporary biochemical connections, Bruice's Third Edition discourages memorization and encourages students to be mindful of the fundamental reasoning behind organic reactivity: electrophiles react with nucleophiles. Developed to support a diverse student audience studying organic chemistry for the first and only time, Essentials fosters an understanding of the principles of organic structure and reaction mechanisms, encourages skill development through new Tutorial Spreads and MasteringChemistry tutorials, and emphasizes bioorganic processes. Contemporary and rigorous, Essentials addresses the skills needed for the 2015 MCAT and serves both pre-med and biology majors. Key Topics: Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding; Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry; Acids and Bases; An Introduction to Organic Compounds; Isomers: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space; Alkenes; An Exercise in Drawing Curved Arrows: Pushing Electrons; The Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes; Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction; Aromaticity and the Reactions of Benzene; Drawing Resonance Contributors; Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides; Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Thiols; Determining the Structure of Organic Compounds; Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones; More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives; Reactions at the a-Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds; Radicals; Synthetic Polymers; The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates; The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions; The Organic Chemistry of the Vitamins; The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways; The Organic Chemistry of Lipids; The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids Key Market: This book is suitable for anyone studying organic chemistry.