http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 01:20:14 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 01:20:14 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=360764 This open textbook provides general principles and functional group reactions. Interactive practice problems provided. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302318 To understand and achieve a practical mastery of organic chemistry requires an evaluation of interacting, and often competing principles and factors. These do not generally lend themselves to a quantitative treatment, so qualitative judgements as to their relative importance are necessary. Six important factors to which repeated reference will be made are:The Structure and Shape of MoleculesCharge Distribution and Interaction within MoleculesThe Relative Energy and Stability of MoleculesChemical Reactions of Organic Compounds and the Equations that Describe ThemReaction Rates and EquilibriaAcid - Base Interactions http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=411364 The ChemWiki project is a new approach toward chemistry education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written partly by students and partly by faculty members resulting in a free Chemistry textbook to supplement or supplant conventional paper-based books. Anyone can view, although a freely available account is required to edit the site modules. The UCD ChemWiki was created and is currently directed by Prof. Delmar Larsen in the Chemistry department at UC Davis. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=443412 According to Textbook Revolution, a student-run site “dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors,” "The Daleys are offering Organic Chemistry for free to students and teachers. It’s been so popular that to save bandwidth, they now require registration before you can download the PDF. By all accounts, the book is quite good. The site appears to be an attempt to drive sales of the printed book, which is printed in three parts, plus a problem book and a book of solutions to the problems. If you purchase all five books, you won’t save much money over a conventional textbook, but at least you have the option of downloading the text for free and purchasing only the exercises and/or answers. You could also download the book, which is kept current, and search the web or used bookstores for older problem sets. No mirrors of this book because the license explicitly forbids mirroring. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=448185 This is a free, online textbook. According to the site, "Classic kinetics (e.g. in chemistry) is based on the assumption that reactions take place in small vessels ... is often not justified. This book formulates a basis for a kinetics where the “mixing condition” is relaxed: the condition is qualitatively deleted – not merely neutralized by use of various approximations.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=556100 ״Organic Chemistry is a broad and complex subject. To understand and achieve a practical mastery of it requires an evaluation of interacting, and often competing principles and factors. These factors do not generally lend themselves to a quantitative treatment, so qualitative judgements as to their relative importance are necessary. As preparation for the study of organic chemistry, six important principles to which repeated reference will be made are listed on the left. By clicking on a name, the nature of the factor will be defined and illustrated. It is suggested that a review of these factors be made before using the on-line textual materials.״