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Pushing Electrons: A Guide for Students of Organic Chemistry | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel P. Weeks
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Category: Book
List Price: $79.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 22332
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0030206936
Dewey Decimal Number: 541
EAN: 9780030206931
Publication Date: 1998
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By Daniel P. Weeks. This brief text will help you develop a skill that is essential to learning organic chemistry and success in your course. By working through the program, you learn to push electrons to generate resonance structures and write organic mechanisms.
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 Amusing organic chemistry: March 15, 2001
Benoit Marsot (San Diego, Ca USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book refrains on the theory and encourage the practice of pushing electron. It's extremely easy to follow and a great practice guide to read before a first organic chemistry course. Help the student master a technique essential to the understanding of Organic Chemistry mechanism.
A must for students of Organic Chemistry March 16, 2002
David M. Vaness (Easton, CT USA)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Having had Dr. Weeks as a professor in my college days, I could not reisist purchasing and reading this book. As an educator, Dr. Weeks was gifted in his ability to take difficult course material and convert it into material that was not only understandable, but enjoyable. He has accomplished this again with the third edition of his book. The mastery of electron movement in organic reactions makes the understanding of more complex aspects of organic chemistry more easily achieved. No organic chemistry student should be without this book.
A very useful guide! September 9, 1999
E. Rosic (Cincinnati, United States)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
The book is truly useful and very easy to read. Although it does not cover a lot of topics from Organic Chem., the topics that are covered are greatly explained. It is worth the money!
Students Should Read This Before Organic Course August 29, 2000
Matthew M. Yau (San Francisco, CA)
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
Adoption of hard cover for this book indicates that it has been more widely used as a supplimentary text for organic courses. Indeed just as the title suggests, this serves as a guide to "push electrons", the main principle behind writing reasonable mechanisms for organic reactions. Many students, unfortunately, find writing mechanisms extremely difficult and have no clue of how to begin. This book does not present chemistry of major functional groups, rather focuses on discussing how electrons shall move properly. Students who consider taking organic chemistry should at least read through this book, as a prerequisite check for your knowledge of electron structures and feel comfortable about directions of which electrons move. Excellent tool for organic student except that now students have to pay a higher price for the hard-cover version.
Great Prep for organic August 27, 2003
Doan Ho (Richmond, VA)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is not a substitution for organic chemistry by any means. It's mean (the first 2 chapters) to prepare, review, and reinforce concepts learned in Gen Chem but vital to organic.The last 3 chapters are not review. They require some understanding of organic first. They are meant to reinforce and review what you learn in class. So you can't just jump for chapter 1 and 2 directly into 3. One and two are meant for prior to organic. And 3 through 5 are to be used during the class. It's definately got me several steps up on my classmates so far. Ken
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