Required Texts
- Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms, 2nd Ed by Bernard Miller
Errata page; 5 points for each new erratum.
- You will be provided with paper and electronic handouts pertaining to the coursework.
Reserve Texts
Reserve texts are kept in Shoker Science Center.
- Electron Flow in Organic Chemistry by Paul H. Scudder. This book is Dr. Berger’s personal copy and will be kept in Shoker Science Center. This book is helpful for reviewing how to write organic reaction mechanisms.
- Basic Skills for Organic Chemistry: A Toolkit by Stuart Rosenfeld. This book is Dr. Berger’s personal copy and will be kept in Shoker Science Center. You should use this as a review text for organic chemistry.
- Organic Chemistry as a Second Language, v. 1 and 2 by David R. Klein. Dr. Berger’s personal copies will be kept in Shoker Science Center. You should use this as a review text for organic chemistry.
- A Handbook of Computational Chemistry by Tim Clark. Section 3.6 of this book is an excellent, brief discussion of qualitative molecular orbital theory as presented in Miller, Section 2.3. If you are interested in more depth, get a copy of B.M. Gimarc’s Molecular Structure and Bonding: The Qualitative Molecular Orbital Approach, or his article in Accounts of Chemical Research, 1974, 7, 384-392.