Acclaimed for its clarity and precision, Wade's Organic Chemistry maintains scientific rigor while engaging students at all levels. Wade presents a logical, systematic approach to understanding the principles of organic reactivity and the mechanisms of organic reactions. This approach helps students develop the problem-solving strategies and the scientific intuition they will apply throughout the course and in their future scientific work. The Eighth Edition provides enhanced and proven features in every chapter, including new Chapter Goals, Essential Problem-Solving Skills and Hints that encourage both majors and non-majors to think critically and avoid taking "short cuts" to solve problems. Mechanism Boxes and Key Mechanism Boxes strengthen student understanding of Organic Chemistry as a whole while contemporary applications reinforce the relevance of this science to the real world. NOTE: This is the standalone book Organic Chemistry,8/e if you want the book/access card order the ISBN below: 0321768140 / 9780321768148 Organic Chemistry Plus MasteringChemistry with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0321768418 / 9780321768414 Organic Chemistry 0321773799 / 9780321773791 MasteringChemistry with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for Organic Chemistry

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"The Seventh Edition has been written with students like you in mind who are encountering organic chemistry for the first time. When learning and studying organic chemistry, you first must master fundamental principles of structure and reactivity that will then serve as the foundation on which to lay subsequent information. When we put a puzzle together, as depicted in the cover image of this book, we must work piece by piece until the larger picture comes into view. Similarly, the individual steps to learning organic chemistry are quite simple; each by itself is relatively easy to master. But there are many pieces involved in learning organic chemistry -- far too many to memorize. One would never try to memorize the position of each piece within a 500 piece puzzle! Mastering organic chemistry requires an understanding of fundamental principles and the ability to use those principles to reason, analyze, classify, and predict."--