What's happening with A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechan Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms?
Dec 2006
From an email message:
... When you get my book, you will see it is just like the lectures except you don't have to attend. Well, not exactly, but I would be surprised if you couldn't learn organic chemistry on your own using A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms. The real truth is that everything you have learned in your life, you have learned on your own. There is no other way. So, I think you can learn ochem on your own also.
... I had a high school student, without any organic chemistry, he started learning organic without any problem. He was using one of the prototypes of my book.
... Organic has like three parts, spectroscopy (mostly NMR), things (nomenclature, terms, stereochemistry), and reactions. The reactions are the hard part for most students. The others, I taught less and less. I just put in enough examples so students would become familiar and could do it. Reactions, I just had to work and work on. I think the limit is largely the limit of the willingness of students to actually learn it. You are trying to make neural connections in your brain. You are better than anyone at doing it. Your instructor really can't do it for you.
... When you get my book, you will see it is just like the lectures except you don't have to attend. Well, not exactly, but I would be surprised if you couldn't learn organic chemistry on your own using A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms. The real truth is that everything you have learned in your life, you have learned on your own. There is no other way. So, I think you can learn ochem on your own also.
... I had a high school student, without any organic chemistry, he started learning organic without any problem. He was using one of the prototypes of my book.
... Organic has like three parts, spectroscopy (mostly NMR), things (nomenclature, terms, stereochemistry), and reactions. The reactions are the hard part for most students. The others, I taught less and less. I just put in enough examples so students would become familiar and could do it. Reactions, I just had to work and work on. I think the limit is largely the limit of the willingness of students to actually learn it. You are trying to make neural connections in your brain. You are better than anyone at doing it. Your instructor really can't do it for you.