The McGraw-Hill resource seems to no longer be available.

This resource had helped me immensely while I was studying O-Chem II during the Spring 2014 term. I was hoping to review it in preparation for advanced organic chemistry, but it seems to no longer be available.

Is there an archived version of this resource? Does anyone know where I could find a similar resource for retrosynthesis?

hi, the above website is quite impressive and really useful for beginners of organic chemistry…… Thanks a lot

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The blog owner is pretty helpful with clearing doubts :-)

That IS fantastic. I am going to put that on the sidebar. I”m extremely surprised it’s free.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0073047872/392183/index.html

Its pretty remarkable, at least I think so…its helpful for thinking of ways to use your reaction knowledge, to build molecules

One thing though: the ACE organic chemistry link is actually http://www.aceorganic.com

I wanted to let you know a couple more resources:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed085p88

According that journal article, students have a tough time learning retrosynthesis, because organic textbooks group reactions by functional group.
“In contrast, the retrosynthetic approach requires the student to envision “reactions that yield the functional group”.”

The way they suggest to fix it, is using a Functional Group Transformation notebook when they learn functional groups and particular reactions.
They learn the reactions forwards, and also backwards – how to get to the functional group mechanistically.

An online resource that offers this, for free, is the website for Carey’s 7th ed of Organic Chemistry.

Starting from Chapter 6, there are “synthesis” problems, where you’re told to, (for example) “design the synthesis of 2-methyl-2-pentanol using the starting materials shown [2-methylbromopentane].”

It has beginner, intermediate and advanced levels for most Chapters…the link is here:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/classware/ala.do?isbn=0073047872&alaid=ala_964364&showSelfStudyTree=true

I dunno if there’s actually even a link from the Mcgraw-hill website or anything…but this is a top resource for retrosynthesis…and while it doesn’t let you draw mechanisms, it’s very useful for thinking about functional group transformations in reverse from the way the books give them.