Renowned for its unified mechanistic themes, emphasis on biological examples, use of applied problems from the pharmaceutical field, and unrivaled full-color visuals, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Sixth Edition, delivers cutting-edge coverage packed with reader-friendly features. Offering a clear presentation, the book offsets reaction mechanisms in a stepwise fashion and emphasizes similarities between related mechanisms, using just four different characteristics: breaking a bond, making a new bond, adding a proton and taking a proton away. Numerous resources assist in mastery of key concepts and problem-solving skills, including a running margin glossary, a mini in-text study guide, medicinal chemistry problems, unique roadmap problems, and more in-chapter examples than any other book.

Review
“The major strengths of the Brown book are the clarity of discussions and the overall organization and order in which topics are presented. Just reading through any chapter, discussions typically provide a very polished and direct explanation of the topic at hand. Moreover the organization of the text proceeds in a manner that builds nicely, for example the reactions of alkyl halides are directly preceded by reactions to generate them.”-Zachary D. Aron, Indiana University