use of book

The author recommends this book for self-study, or for homework assignments for a class. Download the author’s syllabus for using this book as part of a first-semester graduate course on organic reactions.

In that syllabus, the author recommends the textbook by Clayden, Greeves, Warren, and Wothers “Organic Chemistry” to provide background for many of the problems.

Students may find these videos useful, on fundamentals of addition of anions to carbonylsfundamentals of oxidation statessome organic chemistry of organoboranes (may not play outside the US)oxidation reactions, and asymmetric reduction reactions.


Other websites of interest include Oliver Reiser’s Chemistry In Context.