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Highlights of the Update
•NEW- 28 Focus Features helpfocus students on analyzing key aspects of complex topics and reactions.
•NEW Margin boxes featuringdetails about the lives and works of eminent scientists
Pearson eText is a simple-to-use,mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering.It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabularyall in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other richmedia engage students and give them access to the help they need, when theyneed it.
• NEW - Digitized versions of Visual Guides to Organic Reactions and Key Mechanism Boxes include videos and can be accessed through links in the eText, giving students easy access to visual explanations of mechanisms, nomenclature, and reaction summaries. Videos are also available in Mastering Chemistry.
Highlights of the Update for Mastering Chemistry
• NEW - Key Mechanism and Mechanism Overview Videos are created as paired videos. Each key mechanism is covered first in an overview video that outlines the type of mechanism and the necessary background for understanding what is taking place. Then, a second video walks the students through a representative reaction of that key mechanism.
• NEW - Mechanism Practice Problems feature one-step hints and predict the product functionality on any step of selected problems if they struggle. The problems give students a place to learn through practice and to earn credit based upon completion rather than correct answers.
• NEW - Item Library is curated, reclassified, and organized into four tiers to help instructors to navigate resources in Mastering Chemistry,
• Tier 1 includes practice questions with credit for completion.
• Tier 2 includes predict the product and single-step mechanisms
• Tier 3 includes new multi-step mechanisms with hints and multi-step problems with the number of boxes and/or intermediates.
• Tier 4 includes synthesis questions.
• NEW - Ready-to-Go Study Tools are available for students to use on their own, even when their professor doesnt assign the modules. These include videos, practice quizzes, practice exams, and worked examples.
Hallmark features of Organic Chemistry
Provide astrong foundation for problem solving
• Problem-Solving Strategies help students break down the multitude of complex problems into simpler pieces and establish thoughtful methods for approaching complicated problems. Strategies cover resonance, acid-base equilibria, and multistep synthesis.
• Over 100 problems include synthesis problems and problems based on recent literature.
Helpstudents see the relevance of organic chemistry
• Green chemistry is emphasized with presentation of less-toxic, environmentally friendly reagents in many situations, such as oxidation of alcohols with bleach rather than with chromium reagents.
• Chapter Openers focus on applications discussed in the chapter, with introductions and images for a contemporary presentation.
• Application Boxes throughout demonstrate the relevance of Organic Chemistry to students lives and areas of interest including contemporary topics such as Biochemistry, Drugs, Environment, Medicine, Fuels, Green Chemistry and Green Living.
Emphasizeorganic reactions and mechanisms
• Reaction Starbursts appear before the end of chapter material of every reaction-based chapter to help students better understand and mentally organize reactive similarities and distinctions.
• Visual Guides to Organic Reactions place the reactions covered in major chapters within the overall context of the reactions covered in the course.
• 20 Key Mechanism boxes highlight the fundamental mechanistic principles that recur throughout the course and are the basis for some of the longer, more complex mechanisms. Each describes the steps of the reaction in detail with a specific example to reinforce the mechanism and a concluding problem to help students absorb these essential reactions.
• Over 50 Mechanism boxes help students understand how specific reactions occur by zooming in on each individual step in detail.
Hallmarkfeatures of Mastering Chemistry
Teach yourcourse your way:
• With Learning Catalytics, youll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do and dont understand. Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly, and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged.
Empower eachlearner:
• Organic Chemistry Dynamic Study Modules focus on general chemistry remediation, acid-base chemistry, functional groups, nomenclature, and key mechanisms. Modules help students study effectively and at their own pace by keeping them motivated and engaged. The assignable modules rely on the latest research in cognitive science, using methods such as adaptivity, gamification, and intermittent rewards to stimulate learning and improve retention. Each module poses a series of questions about a course topic or about a topic specific to the text. These question sets adapt to each students performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts.
• Organic Chemistry Drawing Tool is an educational customized version of Java Free MarvinSketch that accommodates the diversity of structures and reaction mechanisms inherent to learning organic chemistry. The tutorials equip students to start quickly drawing organic structures and mechanisms and cover how to accurately draw reaction mechanisms, modify answers, and use the palette. All mechanism-based problems provide wrong-answer feedback specific to each step of the reaction, and new visual cues help clarify exact placement of arrows, enable selection of the electron, and highlight which bonds have been formed or broken.
Delivertrusted content:
• Six NMR/IR Spectroscopy simulations (a partnership with Advanced Chemistry Dynamic labs) allow professors and students access to limitless spectral analysis with guided activities that can be used in labs, in the classroom, or after class to study and explore spectra virtually. Activities authored by Mike Huggins, University of West Florida, prompt students to utilize the spectral simulator and walk them through different analysis and possible conclusions to draw from the spectra.
• 120 Organic Chemistry-specific tutorials built around the most challenging topics in Organic Chemistry provide feedback and Socratic and declarative hints so students learn where they are going wrong.
• Enhanced end-of-chapter problems now include wrong-answer specific feedback on all mechanism problems so students have a greater opportunity to practice and understand organic chemistry, without being unnecessarily distracted by the formatting details of using the drawing tool.
Improvestudent results: Whenyou teach with Mastering, student performance often improves. Thats whyinstructors have chosen Mastering for over 15 years, touching the lives of over20 million students.
•28Focus Features help focusstudents on analyzing key aspects of complex topics and reactions.
•Marginboxes featuring details about the lives and works of eminent scientists
Pearson eText is a simple-to-use,mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering.It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabularyall in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other richmedia engage students and give them access to the help they need, when theyneed it.
• Digitized versions of Visual Guides to Organic Reactions and Key Mechanism Boxes include videos and can be accessed through links in the eText, giving students easy access to visual explanations of mechanisms, nomenclature, and reaction summaries. Videos are also available in Mastering Chemistry.
Highlights of the Update forMastering Chemistry
• Key Mechanism and Mechanism Overview Videos are created as paired videos. Each key mechanism is covered first in an overview video that outlines the type of mechanism and the necessary background for understanding what is taking place. Then, a second video walks the students through a representative reaction of that key mechanism.
• Mechanism Practice Problems feature one-step hints and predict the product functionality on any step of selected problems if they struggle. The problems give students a place to learn through practice and to earn credit based upon completion rather than correct answers.
• Item Library is curated, reclassified, and organized into four tiers to help instructors to navigate resources in Mastering Chemistry,
• Tier 1 includes practice questions with credit for completion.
• Tier 2 includes predict the product and single-step mechanisms
• Tier 3 includes new multi-step mechanisms with hints and multi-step problems with the number of boxes and/or intermediates.
• Tier 4 includes synthesis questions.
• Ready-to-Go Study Tools are available for students to use on their own, even when their professor doesnt assign the modules. These include videos, practice quizzes, practice exams, and worked examples.
