A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry is a book that comes under the genre of Academic and Professional books. The book has been written by Peter Sykes and is published by the publication house, Pearson India, in the year 2003. It is written in simple and lucid English.
Synopsis
A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry is a book by Peter Sykes that covers a huge range of topics in Organic Chemistry. The sixth edition contains some added information as compared to the previous books. It also serves as an introduction to the activation parameters like Dimorth's ET Parameter. The basic theme of mechanism is touched upon at every level of the book. It also covers elements such as acid and basic strength. Mechanics that are involved in electrophilic and nucleophilic substitutions are also covered in this book. This book also contains the studies that are carried out on aromatic compounds.
About the Author
Peter Sykes was born in the year 1923 on the 19th of February. He served at the Christ's College in the Cambridge University, as a Vice Master, and is a well noted chemist. Organic Chemistry, one of the books written by him, is still considered to be one of the prime texts of the undergraduate level. Sykes died on October 24 in the year 2003.
