THIS is an expensive introduction to organic chemistry, which does not offer any particularly novel features. The type of treatment is indicated by the first few chapter headings, which run as follows ...

“Overwhelmed by Orgo” (C&EN, March 28, page 24) on the crisis in organic chemistry education struck a chord. As an organic chemistry instructor at the university level for more than 20 years, I can ...

Students learn to define and identify organic compounds. Chemical Reactions: Writing Molecular Formulas and an Introduction to Organic Molecules: Students learn to define and identify organic ...

A swipe of the finger across an iPhone screen launches molecules at targets through the open neck of an Erlenmeyer flask in an educational app a UCLA chemistry professor developed with his students.

The first meeting of this internationally renowned symposium was held in Oxford in 1969, and since then the meetings have alternated on a biennial basis between Oxford and Cambridge. The Synthesis in ...

Chemistry is a field of study that is often called a “central science” because of the many ways it connects and informs studies in the physical and life sciences and plays a foundational role in many ...

Sponsored by Organic Reactions Inc. and Organic Syntheses Inc. To say that Andrew Streitwieser, emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, was a child prodigy is an ...

THE book provides an admirable general introduction to the subject and will commend itself both to student and teacher for its simplicity of approach. The latter is achieved by concentrating attention ...