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Brad24p
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High School Organic Chemistry Textbooks
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I am a high school chemistry teacher trying to construct a semester organic chemistry course. Are there any high school organic chemistry books out there? I need suggestions. Thanks guys.
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Organic Chemistry, by nature, is complex. However, I would think that they might introduce it at the end of some Chem 2 books? Just a guess though.
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How are you going to teach it? Most textbooks will talk about naming, stick figures and hydrocarbon isomers, formal charges, pKa's, etc in a standard succession. When they talk about what reactions first, that may vary. If you're going this far I think kindergarten carbonyl chemistry is simpler to understand than alkene reactions.
The answer maybe a textbook geared towards undergrad pre-med students that is bowdlerized beforehand. One book I used, which I didn't like because it was over simplified at the collegiate level IMO, is
http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Available-Titles-Cengagenow-ebook/dp/B00BECKF5S/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401866073&sr=1-2&keywords=organic+chemistry+mcmurry
. It displays its problems and diagrams as extended stick figures (CH
2
=CH
2
CHO), atoms always in different colors, etc. Just my two cents, hope that helps.
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