Books in the Chemistry At a Glance series

With the diverse teaching backgrounds of first year university students, the highly detailed traditional organic chemistry textbook does not provide an easily digestible presentation of the very basic information required by many students to begin their study of this exciting subject.

It is now possible to enter a chemistry degree course at many UK universities without any formal maths training beyond age 16. Addressing this deficiency requires students to take additional mathematics training when entering university, yet the relevance of maths to chemistry is often poorly appreciated by chemistry students.

Stereochemistry deals with the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in molecules. All chemical reactions take place three dimensions and the spatial arrangement of those atoms can have a profound effect on the outcome of a chemical reaction.

Natural products have been a fertile area of chemical investigation for many years, driving the development of both analytical chemistry and of new synthetic reactions and methodologies. Many of the most important synthetic reactions in chemistry have been developed in the quest to characterise and synthesise these materials.

Inorganic chemistry is a core part of the chemistry curricula, though it is often felt to be a huge range of disparate facts that have little underlying organization or reasoning.

* Based on the highly successful "at a glance" series * Contains all the key principles required to gain a solid understanding of chemical thermodynamics, presented in a highly graphical way to aid assimilation, understanding and recall.

Students at all levels find considerable difficulty in applying their knowledge of organic chemistry to the solution of problems, often relying on memory alone. This book takes a unique approach to show that a general problem--solving strategy is applicable to many of the common reactions.

Androgen steroids have become virtually synonymous with drug abuse in sports but are in reality overshadowed by a large collection of compounds, which are commercial drugs that share the same structural carbon skeleton. Steroid Chemistry At A Glance provides a concise overview of the main principles and reactions of steroid chemistry.

This expanded second edition provides a concise overview of the main principles and reactions of heterocyclic chemistry for undergraduate students studying chemistry and related courses.