Organic Chemistry 13th Edition continues Solomons, Fryle,
and Snyder's tradition of excellence in teaching and preparing students
for success in both the classroom and beyond.
Central to the authors is their approach in emphasizing organic
chemistry's relationship between structure and reactivity. To accomplish
this, the content is organized in a way that combines the most useful
features of a functional group approach with one largely based on
reaction mechanisms. The authors' philosophy is to emphasize mechanisms
and their common aspects as often as possible, and at the same time, use
the unifying features of functional groups as the basis for most
chapters. The structural aspects of the authors' approach show students
what organic chemistry is. Mechanistic aspects of their approach show
students how it works. And wherever an opportunity arises, the authors
show students what it does in living systems and the physical world
around us.