Understanding Advanced Organic and Analytical Chemistry

The Learner's ApproachRevised Edition

This revised edition has been updated to meet the minimum requirements of the new Singapore GCE A level syllabus that would be implemented in the year 2016. Nevertheless, this book is also highly relevant to students who are studying chemistry for other examination boards. In addition, the authors have also included more Q&A to help students better understand and appreciate the chemical concepts that they are mastering.

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Contents:

• Structure and Bonding
• Isomerism in Organic Compounds
• Organic Reactions and Mechanisms
• Alkanes
• Alkenes
• Arenes
• Halogen Derivatives
• Alcohols and Phenol
• Carbonyl Compounds
• Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives
• Amines
• Amino Acids
• Polymers
• Mass Spectrometry
• Ultra-Violet and Visible Spectroscopy
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• Chromatography and Electrophoresis

Readership: Junior college students and teachers in chemistry.
Key Features:

• The book provides fundamental important scaffolding to aid students to create their own understanding of the chemical concepts
• The book encourages critical thinking and meaningful applications, using the basic concepts learnt
• The book guides the students to integrate the various concepts that they have learnt into a coherent and meaningful conceptual network