ORGANIC REACTIONS AND THEIR MECHANISMS 5E

Description

In the new fifth edition the text in almost all the chapters has been updated by adding new material and deleting the old ones. The book is designed to provide a comprehensive coverage in the area of organic reaction mechanisms for chemistry undergraduate and postgraduate students. Now-a-days the practice of medicine increasingly demands deep knowledge of the behaviour of molecules. Therefore, the future biologists will have to be more of organic chemists, among other things.

Key Features:
1 In writing this fifth edition the major goal has been to integrate the information about many fundamental organic reactions.

2 Based on the feedback given to me by hundreds of students and my learned colleagues, I have made changes by completely rewriting the book at different places.

3 New reagents, new organic reactions and solved exercises have been added.

4 The study of organic reactions and their mechanisms is an enormously broad subject. A full analysis of reaction mechanism requires a good knowledge about molecular structure, stereochemistry and thermodynamics. These topics are, therefore, further developed by laying more emphasis in the fifth edition.

About the Author

P S Kalsi obtained his PhD degree from Pune University, Pune under the guidance of Professor
S C Bhattacharya at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in 1964. He has published over 150 research papers in national and
international journals of repute in the area of chemistry of natural products. Prof. Kalsi was honoured by the Punjab
Agricultural University in 1969 in recognition of his merit as a teacher. Prof. Kalsi was invited by the Swedish Royal Academy
of Sciences to submit proposals for the award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1985. Indian Chemical Society in 2003
conferred on him S C Ameta medal for his outstanding research contributions. In 2011, Indian Chemical Society conferred on
him Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to chemical education on the eve of International Year of
Chemistry. He was honoured as the best teacher of chemistry in India at 28th Gujarat Science Congress held at North Gujarat
University, Patan on 22nd–23rd February, 2014 deliberating on Excellence in Science Education in India–A challenge ahead.
He is actively involved in teaching in different universities/postgraduate colleges and serves as a UGC resource person to
deliver lectures in refresher courses. In an academic year he visits about 12 different universities and delivers about 200
lectures.

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