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Direct linkTeixeira, Jennifer; Holman, R. W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
Organic chemistry students typically struggle with the retrosynthetic approach to solving synthesis problems because most textbooks present the chemistry grouped by "reactions of the functional group". In contrast, the retrosynthetic approach requires the student to envision "reactions that yield the functional group". A second challenge is the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Organic Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Students
