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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Ninth Edition, is a student-friendly, cutting-edge introduction for chemistry, health and biological sciences majors. The text aligns pedagogically with the way today’s students approach complicated material. In addition to featuring unified mechanistic themes, focused problem-solving, applied pharmaceutical problems and biological examples, the new edition takes a unique, step-by-step approach to reaction mechanisms, emphasizing similarities among mechanisms using four traits: breaking a bond, making a new bond, adding a proton and taking a proton away. The text also includes pull-out organic chemistry reaction roadmaps organized by chapter to help students devise their own reaction pathways. Emphasizing practical “how-to” skills, the new edition is packed with challenging synthesis problems, medicinal chemistry problems and unique roadmap problems, with hundreds of detailed solutions to all in-chapter exercises to guide students through logical approaches to solving problems of various types. New point-by-point summaries at the beginning of each section highlight important content in a way that is easy for students to review and reference, while in-margin definitions and highlighted integral concepts reinforce key content throughout the text. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.