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Carefully developed, extensively market reviewed core textbook for undergraduate organic chemistry courses; Emphasis is on understanding rather than learning facts; Emphasis on mechanism, orbitals, and stereochemistry means that the student emerges with solid understanding of important factors common to all reactions, allowing interpretation/prediction of reactions not previously met; Organic chemistry emerges as a coherent whole, with numerous logical connections and consequences, and with an underlying structure and language; The teaching of organic chemistry continues to move away from starting with the traditional and increasingly old-fashioned 'alkanes, alkenes, alkynes' to carbonyl chemistry; Direct, personal, student-friendly writing style; Innovative design to aid comprehension: four types of box to seperate; material from main text; colours of structures and reaction schemes; end of chapter problems.