Student Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Fundamentals of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry

About our authors John McMurry, educated at Harvard and Columbia, has taught approximately 17,000 students in general and organic chemistry over a 30-year period. A Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University since 1980, Dr. McMurry previously spent 13 years on the faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz.David S. Ballantine received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1977 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1983 from the University of Maryland at College Park. After several years as a researcher at the Naval Research Labs in Washington, DC, he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Northern Illinois University, where he has been a professor since 1989.Carl Hoeger received his B.S. in Chemistry from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1983. After a postdoctoral stint at the University of California, Riverside, he joined the Peptide Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute in 1985 where he ran the NIH Peptide Facility while doing basic research in the development of peptide agonists and antagonists. During this time he also taught general, organic, and biochemistry at San Diego City College, Palomar College, and Miramar College. He joined the teaching faculty at University of California, San Diego in 1998. Dr. Hoeger has been teaching chemistry to undergraduates for over 20 years, where he continues to explore the use of technology in the classroom; his current project involves the use of video podcasts as adjuncts to live lectures.Virginia Peterson received her B.S. in Chemistry in 1967 from the University of Washington in Seattle, and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1980 from the University of Maryland at College Park. Between her undergraduate and graduate years she worked in lipid, diabetes, and heart disease research at Stanford University. Following her Ph.D. she took a position in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Missouri in Columbia and is now Professor Emerita. When she retired in2011 she had been the Director of Undergraduate Advising for the department for 8 years and had taught both senior capstone classes and biochemistry classes for non-science majors. Although retired, Dr. Peterson continues to advise undergraduates and teach classes.

• 1. Matter and Measurements2. Atoms and the Periodic Table3. Ionic Compounds4. Molecular Compounds5. Classification and Balancing of Chemical Reactions6. Chemical Reactions: Mole and Mass Relationships7. Chemical Reactions: Energy, Rates, and Equilibrium8. Gases, Liquids, and Solids9. Solutions10. Acids and Bases11. Nuclear Chemistry12. Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Alkanes13. Alkenes, Alkynes, and Aromatic Compounds14. Some Compounds with Oxygen, Sulfur, or a Halogen15. Amines16. Aldehydes and Ketones17. Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives18. Amino Acids and Proteins19. Enzymes and Vitamins20. Carbohydrates21. The Generation of Biochemical Energy22. Carbohydrate Metabolism23. Lipids24. Lipid Metabolism25. Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism26. Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis27. Genomics28. Chemical Messengers: Hormones, Neurotransmitters, and Drugs29. Body Fluids